msf 2.2 + perl 5.005 + freebsd 4.10

[vision at whitehats.com (Max Vision)]

It is "really easy" to upgrade perl.  You can:

1> cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 && make install

or

2> echo install N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.5.tar.gz|perl -MCPAN -e shell

or

3> wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.5.tar.gz &&\
    tar zxvf perl-5.8.5.tar.gz && cd perl-5.8.5/ && ./Configure
    (follow prompts)
    make && make install

I run 4.10 on my FreeBSD machine as well, and I upgraded with no problem. 
The first option from above will only work on FreeBSD boxen but the others 
should work on any unix.

Slightly unrelated note - anytime you install perl fresh you probably 
want to:
  perl -MCPAN -e shell
   install Bundle::CPAN
   reload CPAN
   install Bundle::LWP
   quit
and any other modules you think you'll need (I like Net::RawIP, etc)..

Max

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 eric-list-metasploit-framework at catastrophe.net wrote:
> I've noticed that msf 2.2 requires perl 5.60. Are there any [easy]
> work-arounds to maintain a 2.2 installation on FreeBSD 4.10?
> Unfortunately this is still at the following...
>
> $ perl -v
>
> This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd
>
> It might be wise for me to go to FreeBSD 5.3, but with the amount of
> bugs we've run into with the 5.x branch, staying with 4.x is prolly
> more likely for the near future.
>
> Any help is appreciated,
>
> - Eric