[CentOS] Perl on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7

Mon Mar 14 16:26:06 UTC 2016
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

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.

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