Upgrade existing Perl 5.12 to Perl 5.18 on FreeBSD 9
Recently I’ve been trying to update the perl package on my FreeBSD box to the latest version 5.18 without any success. Here’s a snippet of the error message: Creating various symlinks in /usr/bin... Symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.18.1 to /usr/bin/perl Symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.18.1 to /usr/bin/perl5 Done. Installing perl5.18-5.18.1_2...pkg-static: perl5.18-5.18.1_2 conflicts with perl-5.12.5 (installs files into the same place). Problematic file: /usr/local/bin/a2p *** [fake-pkg] Error code 70 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.18. *** [install] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.18. ===>>> Installation of perl5.18-5.18.1_2 (lang/perl5.18) failed ===>>> Aborting update ===>>> Killing background jobs Terminated ===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this command line: portmaster lang/perl5.18 ===>>> Exiting So I turned to Google to see if other people experienced the same thing as me. According to an answer to a similar question about upgrading perl on serverfault.com, one should read ...