How to upgrade Perl properly

[Miguel Garcia]

Hello,

I have an old box with CentOS 4.8 and Plesk 9.3.0. The problem is that I must update Perl to 5.8.8 (o highest). It´s possible install Perl 5.8.8 on CentOS 4.8?

If it's possible, What is the most properly method without broken Plesk? With yum: "yum update perl", With the properly rpm, o directly from source?

I really worry about it. I want do it without broken Plesk.

If it's not possible install Perl 5.8.8 I can use the actual version 5.8.5 but I need to install on Perl 5.8.5 some modules. I allways use CPAN for it. Can I use CPAN in a Plesk server or could cause any problem wiht Plesk components like Spamassasin, Awstats ... etc?

Thanks,

 

[Miguel Garcia]

No one has updated Perl on a server with Plesk? Or has used CPAN to install Perl modules?

 

[Miguel Garcia]

For example. If I try to update Perl from source:

wget http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.8.8.tar.gz
tar zxf perl-5.8.8.tar.gz
cd perl-5.8.8
./Configure -de
make, make test and make install

Can broken Plesk or any Plesk components?

I'd apreciate any help,

Thanks,