![]() Note: You may be tempted to do a `yum remove perl` to remove the 5.8 version that your distribution came with. In this tutorial, CentOS 5 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be used, however the procedure should be quite similar for other distributions of Linux as well. Upgrading on Linux Since the Windows distributions of Perl come in binary form which install themselves just like any other piece of Windows software, this tutorial instead explains how to compile Perl 5.10 for a Linux machine. ![]() It's also fully CPAN compatible, which makes it that much better than ActiveState's PPM system. Apparently it's just like the standard Perl that comes preinstalled on all Unix/Linux/Mac OS systems, but is for Windows. Strawberry Perl I've never personally used Strawberry Perl, but I've heard some good things about it. ActiveState (the company) wants to sell prepackaged DVDs that have ActivePerl and half a dozen other development tools on them, but the interpreter itself is a free download. Yes, ActivePerl is free just keep following the 'Download' links to get it. Just link to and poke around for the download. ![]() ![]() Upgrading on Windows ActivePerl I've always had a lot of luck using ActivePerl on Windows, and you can get version 5.10 from their site. This page will tell you how to upgrade to Perl 5.10. Perl 5.10 brings a lot of new features to the Perl programming language. Upgrade to Perl 5.10.0 On December 18th, 2007, announces the release of Perl 5.10, the first major upgrade to the wildly popular dynamic programming language in over five years.
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