How to upgrade Perl 5.10 to 5.14 on FreeBSD

The port ‘lang/perl5.10’ was removed on 2013-02-04 because: “Has expired: no longer under development, use lang/perl5.16 or lang/perl5.14”. So we need to move from older 5.10 to newer 5.14. To upgrade perl choose port managment tool you like ( portupgrade or portmaster).

Portupgrade users

1) Fix pkgdb.db (for safety):

$ pkgdb -Ff

2) Reinstall new version of Perl (5.12):

$ env DISABLE_CONFLICTS=1 portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.10.\*

3) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl:

$ portupgrade -fr perl

Portmaster users

$ portmaster -o lang/perl5.12 lang/perl5.10

Conservative:

$ portmaster p5-

Comprehensive (but perhaps overkill):

$ portmaster -r perl-

Note: If the “perl-” glob matches  more than one port you will need to specify the name of the Perl directory in /var/db/pkg explicitly.

And now you can check which version of perl do you have:

$ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 4 (v5.14.4) built for amd64-freebsd-thread-multi

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