Dear SCO Customer, The Perl Supplement version 5.8.6Eb contains an update to Perl for SCO OpenServer Releases 5.0.7 and 5.0.6a. This supplement updates Perl to version 5.8.6. This update supersedes perl-5.8.4Aa. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Software Notes and Recommendations 1. This supplement can be installed on the following SCO OpenServer releases: SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 with Maintenance Pack 3 SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.6 with RS506A and OSS646C (or later) NOTE: Before installing this supplement, you MUST first install the following software: Supplemental Graphics, Web, and X11 Libraries version 2.0.0Eb See ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver5/507/other/gwxlibs-2.0.0Eb/ 2. The included components and their versions are listed below. Perl 5.8.6, including the following modules: Archive-Tar 1.23 Archive-Zip 1.14 BerkeleyDB 0.26 Cache 2.02 Cache-Cache 1.03 Class-Loader 2.02 Compress-Bzip2 1.00 Compress-Zlib 1.34 Convert-ASCII-Armour 1.4 Convert-ASCII-String 0.36 Convert-ASN1 0.18 Convert-PEM 0.06 Crypt-Anubis 1.0.4 Crypt-Blowfish 2.09 Crypt-Blowfish_PP 1.12 Crypt-CAST5 0.04 Crypt-CAST5_PP 1.02 Crypt-CBC 2.12 Crypt-DES 2.03 Crypt-DES_EDE3 0.01 Crypt-DES_EEE3 0.01 Crypt-DES_PP 1.00 Crypt-DSA 0.12 Crypt-ECB 1.40 Crypt-GOST 1.00 Crypt-IDEA 1.02 Crypt-OpenPGP 1.03 Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum 0.03 Crypt-OpenSSL-DSA 0.11 Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA 0.21 Crypt-OpenSSL-Random 0.03 Crypt-OpenSSL-SMIME 0.02 Crypt-Primes 0.50 Crypt-RIPEMD160 0.04 Crypt-RSA 1.55 Crypt-Random 1.23 Crypt-Rijndael 0.05 Crypt-Rot13 0.04 Crypt-SEAL2 1.0.4 Crypt-SSLeay 0.51 Crypt-Salt 0.01 Crypt-TripleDES 0.24 Crypt-Twofish 2.12 Crypt-Twofish2 1.0 Crypt-UnixCrypt 1.0 DBD-Pg 1.32 DBD-SQLite 1.07 DBD-SQLite2 0.33 DBD-mysql 2.9004 DBI 1.47 DBM-Any 0.1 Data-Buffer 0.04 Data-ShowTable 3.3 DateManip 5.42a Digest 1.07 Digest-BubbleBabble 0.01 Digest-EMAC 1.2 Digest-HMAC 1.01 Digest-MD2 2.03 Digest-Nilsimsa 0.06 Digest-SHA 5.28 Digest-SHA1 2.10 Digest-SHA2 1.1.0 Error 0.15 ExtUtils-CBuilder 0.09 ExtUtils-ParseXS 2.08 File-AnySpec 0.06 File-NFSLock 1.20 File-PM2File 0.08 File-Package 0.06 File-SmartNL 0.05 File-Where 0.05 FreezeThaw 0.43 HTML-Clean 0.8 HTML-FillInForm 1.05 HTML-Parser 3.45 HTML-SimpleParse 0.12 HTML-TagReader 1.08 HTML-Tagset 3.04 HTTP-GHTTP 1.07 Heap 0.71 IO-Socket-SSL 0.96 IO-String 1.06 IO-Zlib 1.04 IO-stringy 2.109 IPC-MM 0.02 IPC-ShareLite 0.09 MIME-Lite 3.01 MIME-Types 1.13 MIME-tools 5.417 MLDBM 2.01 MLDBM-Sync 0.30 MailTools 1.66 Math-Pari 2.010603 Module-Build 0.2608 Module-ScanDeps 0.51 Module-Signature 0.44 Msgcat 1.03 MySQL-Config 1.03 Net-DNS 0.48 Net-DNS-Codes 0.08 Net-DNS-SEC 0.12 Net-DNS-ToolKit 0.23 Net-Daemon 0.38 Net-Daemon-SSL 1.0 Net-IP 1.21 Net-Server 0.87 Net-ext 1.011 Net_SSLeay.pm 1.25 PAR 0.87 PAR-Dist 0.07 Parse-RecDescent 1.94 Parse-Yapp 1.05 Perl-Tidy 20031021 PlRPC 0.2018 RPC-XML 0.57 SOAP 0.28 SOAP-Lite 0.60 Sort-Versions 1.5 Text-Iconv 1.4 Tie-Cache 0.17 Tie-EncryptedHash 1.21 Tie-Gzip 0.06 Tie-IxHash 1.21 Tie-TextDir 0.06 TimeDate 1.16 URI 1.35 Unicode-Map8 0.12 Unicode-String 2.07 Unix-Syslog 0.100 XML-DOM 1.43 XML-DOM-XPath 0.02 XML-Dumper 0.71 XML-Encoding 1.01 XML-Filter-BufferText 1.01 XML-GDOME 0.86 XML-GDOME-XSLT 0.75 XML-Generator 0.99 XML-Generator-DBI 1.00 XML-Generator-PerlData 0.89 XML-Grove 0.46alpha XML-LibXML 1.58_1 XML-LibXML-Common 0.13 XML-LibXSLT 1.57 XML-NamespaceSupport 1.08 XML-Parser 2.34 XML-SAX 0.12 XML-SAX-Expat 0.37 XML-SAX-Writer 0.44 XML-Sablotron 0.98 XML-Simple 2.14 XML-Twig 3.16 XML-Writer 0.530 XML-Writer-String 0.1 XML-XPath 1.13 XML-XSLT 0.48 XML-Xerces-2.5.0 0 YAML 0.36 gettext 1.01 libwww-perl 5.803 libxml-enno 1.02 libxml-perl 0.08 3. Note that you do not need to remove previous versions of this supplement. This package will automatically replace any older versions. 4. The source code for this supplement as it was compiled is available at ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver5/507/opensrc ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Installation Instructions To install Perl 5.8.6: 1. Download the media image tar(C) archive from: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver5/507/other/perl586Eb to a temporary location such as /tmp/perl and run the command tar xvf perl568Eb_vol.tar 2. Run the Software Manager with the command: # scoadmin software or double-click on the Software Manager icon in the desktop. 3. Pull down the "Software" menu and select "Install New". 4. When prompted for the host from which to install, choose the local machine and then "Continue". 5. In the "Select Media" menu, pull down the "Media Device" menu. Select "Media Images", then choose "Continue". 6. When prompted for the "Image Directory", enter the directory used in Step 1 (such as /tmp/perl) and choose "OK". 7. When prompted to select software to install, make sure that the "Perl 5.8.6" entry is highlighted. Choose "Install". 8. When the installation is complete, click on "OK". The Software Manager lists the newly installed component among the installed software. 9. Exit the Software Manager by selecting the "Host" menu, then "Exit". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Removal Instructions 1. As root, execute the command: # scoadmin software or double-click on the Software Manager icon in the desktop. 2. Highlight "Perl 5.8.6". 3. Pull down the "Software" menu and select "Remove Software". 4. Once the removal finishes, quit the Software Manager. Removal is now complete. If you have questions about this supplement or the platform it is installed on, please contact your software supplier.