[LON-CAPA-admin] Re: upgrading

[Guy Albertelli II]

> Hi Guy,
> 
> 
> > > >>1. Is it safe to upgrade to perl 5.8.6? Currently, it is 5.8.3.
> > > >
> > > >I'm not sure what you mean by "Safe".  If this is a LON-CAPA server, I
> > > >don't understand why you'd be installing Oracle and in fact I would 
> > advise
> > > >against doing.
> > >
> > > Safe as to whether lon-capa will run. I need oracle for the 
> > auto-enrollment.
> >
> >Well we don't know if it'll run, it is likely to cause issues with at
> >least some of the horde of perl modules we need.
> >
> >It might be safeest for you to install a second perl in /usr/local/bin
> >which is what perl does by default if you download it and
> >build/install it.
> >
> >Then the /usr/local/bin/perl will look in /usr/local/lib for it
> >modules and thus not disturb the 5.8.3 perl that lon-capa is using.
> >
> >Sound doable?
> 
> I contacted a tech guy here who handles the oracle database and he said 
> that he installed it on FC3. So there is hope. Maybe FC3 uses perl 5.8.6 :-(!

5.8.5


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