[CentOS] more recent perl version?

Wed May 24 12:09:04 UTC 2017
hw <hw at gc-24.de>

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?