On Tue, 23 May 2017, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > hw wrote: >> >> are there packages replacing the ancient perl version in >> Centos 7 with a more recent one, like 5.24? At least the >> state feature is required. Perl 5.24 is available in SCL, in the centos-sclo-rh repository. [root ~]# yum info rh-perl524-perl Name : rh-perl524-perl Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 4 Version : 5.24.0 Release : 379.el7 Size : 6.0 M Repo : centos-sclo-rh/x86_64 Summary : Practical Extraction and Report Language -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/