FreeBSD 5.3 Perl port problem

[deneme]

Datacenter says that

"FreeBSD 5.3 an older version of Perl in the ports collection. I can't get Plesk to install without the correct version of Perl. "


Is it true?
What is the solution?

 

[Whistler]

Originally posted by deneme
Is it true?
What is the solution?

Update your ports collection

 

[deneme]

Re: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Perl port problem

Originally posted by Whistler
Update your ports collection

Hımm
datacenter says...

How can I update perl port?

 

[Whistler]

Have you tried googling for an answer to that?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

http://sig9.com/articles/ports-howto

http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200406/ports-things-go-wrong.html

Just a couple of links I found searching...

 

[Whistler]

But I must warn you:

If you don't know anything about your FreeBSD OS and how to use it / update it - you might seriously consider asking your Datacenter to do the job for you!

Update Perl / Ports at your own risk and be aware that it might render you system in a non 100% operational state if anything goes wrong.

 

[jamesyeeoc]

Hey Whistler, it sounds like he has been contacting his DC and they don't know how...

 

[Whistler]

Originally posted by jamesyeeoc Hey Whistler, it sounds like he has been contacting his DC and they don't know how...

I know! But I think it's a bit out of scope of this forum (as usual) to teach people how to use their OS.

But if his datacenter can't/won't do it - then he'll have to try for himself - or find (probably pay) someone to do it. And then - I would - if I was him - find another datacenter to run my hosting service if they can't/won't help. But then again - that depends also on what you pay for and what agreement you have signed with the datacenter running the server.

But my advice about the datacenter is more a kind of disclaimer part :-|

 

[deneme]

Hımm okey.
I think there is problem with FreeBSD Perl port with PLESK 7.5.4

I wanted to install PLESK 7.5.4 to FreeBSD5.3 one months ago. I got error with perl port problem.

Is there any solution to install PLESK 7.5.4 to FreeBSD 5.x?

 

[Whistler]

Hmmm... Why do you think theres a problem? What error do you get? I have no problems here... took a little time to upgrade with all the needed CPAN modules etc. - but it all works fine here...

 

[deneme]

I found solution

The way I would do this is:

cd /usr
rm -R ports
fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/p...ts/ports.tar.gz
tar zxvf ports.tar.gz && rm ports.tar.gz

Then follow through the instructions to upgrade perl


1. cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
2. make deinstall (removes perl5.8.6)
3. make reinstall (hurray! now we have 5.8.7)

 

[PaulC]

They look like my instructions

I have upgraded 5 Plesk servers to 7.5.4 FreeBSD and it works fine running those commands before to upgrade perl.

You will also need to reinstall any perl modules you might have installed yourself.

 

[deneme]

Sorry full ports path is here


cd /usr
rm -R ports
fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
tar zxvf ports.tar.gz && rm ports.tar.gz

cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
make deinstall
make reinstall