[CentOS] Perl on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Mon, March 14, 2016 11:26 am, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, John R Pierce wrote:
>
>> On 3/14/2016 8:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
>>>  What are the proven/tested version of Perl for CentOS 6 and 7? Is Perl
>>> 6
>>>  operational on either?
>>
>> C6 comes with perl 5.10.1
>> C7 comes with perl 5.16.3
>
> Additionally, there are software collections available for Perl 5.16
> and 5.20:
>
>    https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/?search=perl
>
> I can't speak for Perl 6, but a cursory search suggests that neither
> CentOS 6 nor 7 have readily available packages.
>

But packages aside, as Linux is UNIX-like system, you can always install
it UNIX way: download tarball from perl site, compile and install it. You
will have to do your own work maintaining it whenever updates are
necessary.

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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