Unix & Linux Asked on December 4, 2021
Why won’t Yum install the latest version of Perl? I see that Perl is at 5.32.0 https://www.perl.org/get.html. My Perl is 5.10.1.
# perl -v
This is perl, v5.10.1
When I try to update, it doesn’t do anything.
# yum update perl
No Packages marked for Update
Here is the info for Perl
# yum info perl.x86_64
Installed Packages
Name : perl
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 4
Version : 5.10.1
Release : 144.el6
Size : 34 M
Repo : installed
Summary : Practical Extraction and Report Language
URL : http://www.perl.org/
Here is my repository list:
# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: d36uatko69830t.cloudfront.net
* centos-sclo-rh: d36uatko69830t.cloudfront.net
* centos-sclo-sclo: d36uatko69830t.cloudfront.net
* epel: d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net
* extras: d36uatko69830t.cloudfront.net
* rpmforge: mirror.teklinks.com
* updates: d36uatko69830t.cloudfront.net
repo id repo name status
Webmin Webmin Distribution Neutral 167
base CentOS-6 - Base 6,713
centos-sclo-rh CentOS-6 - SCLo rh 3,814
centos-sclo-sclo CentOS-6 - SCLo sclo 436
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 12,592
extras CentOS-6 - Extras 47
pgdg93 PostgreSQL 9.3 6 - x86_64 429
rpmforge RHEL 6 - RPMforge.net - dag 4,718
updates CentOS-6 - Updates 1,068
repolist: 29,984
That's simply the newest version RedHat/CentOS provides. Bear in mind that CentOS is an enterprise distribution that is designed not to break during the normal lifecycle, so feature updates are pretty rare and bugfixes are often backported from newer versions to older ones.
That being said, you have Software Collections enabled, there should be a somewhat newer perl in there. (5.14? 5.16? I can't check right now, but yum search rh-perl should tell you.) Note that that perl will not replace /usr/bin/perl, it will install the new version into /opt/rh/....
Answered by Ulrich Schwarz on December 4, 2021
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