[CentOS] more recent perl version?

[Paul Heinlein]

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

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