howto install the newest perl version 5.8 on Debian Sarge ?

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hi

howto install the newest perl version 5.8.X on Debian Sarge,
or better to upgrade the existing version.

greetings
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[dawgie]

You can break a lot of programs from forcing an upgrade to perl or python. There are many programs and config scripts that depend on them. This is OK if you have a seperate experimental install that you can afford to lose.

Bob

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thanks !

but if I do an upgrade to the next stable version,
for example from Woody to Sarge:

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade

everything will be upgradet correctly ?

[lacek]

To upgrade a complete system to a next version (Woody->Sarge), you should use

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apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

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thanks,

but I found in the Internet:

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Don't do dist-upgrade, what ever you do... it's not good. 
Just upgrade the packages and I imagine that's it.

it could be a dangerous thing ?

[lacek]

The main difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is that dist-upgrade will install or remove packages as needed to satisfy the upgrade request, while upgrade doesn't touch the list of installed packages in any way.
For example, let's suppose that a package was on its own, and it was called the-package. Later, it was split to the-package and libthe-package. Upgrade would not upgrade the package now, because additional packages would be installed, and upgrade will upgrade _only_ the already-installed packages.
Likewise, if a package was merged into one from a lib-program pair, it would take a dist-upgrade to upgrade the package, since the upgrade process would remove a package from the system.
In these cases, the packages marked as 'kept back' when using upgrade. You may choose the install the 'kept back' packages by hand, but the dist-upgrade does it automatically.

I don't think dist-upgrade would be 'bad'... I done a few dist-upgrades, all of them went smoothly...

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thanks !