Paul Heinlein schrieb: > 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 > Thanks, I tried rh-perl, and it worked for a test. It does not replace the existing perl installation. You have to explicitly use that version. I´m not sure if that´s possible for CGI. I do get 5.24 after running 'scl enable rh-perl524 bash'. Is there a way to get that for CGI?