Recommendation please 3685

Ah yes, it is better to try to get it from your own distribution site for precisely that reason. Everyone has their own ideas of where to install it. However you could just put pointers to it say fromusr-local-bin as well. ln -sfopt-perl-5.8.6-bin-perlusr-local-bin-perl

To remove the old one do rpm -e perl however that may well give you a huge of list of things which depend on it. That is again why it is better to use the rpm for your distro.

Yes. RH's position has been a pain in the butt.

HOwever again, if you want to update just a few things, get the newer rpm from say the Fedora site and try installing them. You may get a huge list of dependencies. They you would have to eitehr get the source and try to install recompile it from rpm rpm --rebuild name.of.the.src.rpm

You do not. I am advising this because sometime the new binary rpms will have dependencies on the new libraries etc in the new distro. recompiling them against what you have makes sure of compatibility.

However you can certainly try to first download the most recent .i386.rpm binaries and install them.

Samba for windows machine or for other linux boxes? If it is for other linux-unix-... boxes then service networking start service networking start service nfs start

They put the directories you want to export intoetc-exports

Eg, a line might be,usr-local machine1(rw,async,norootsquash) machine2(ro,async) and then run exportfs -a

and on the other machines, put intoetc-fstab (eg on machine 1) machine0:-usr-localusr-local0 nfs rw,soft,bg,intr 0 0

Make sure that the directoryusr-local0 exists and Then run mount -a and you will have mounted it. Of course if the other machines are windows machines, then I have no idea.