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Ok, the problem is not the age of your Perl version (we established yesterday that 5.004_02 should include POSIX.pm) it's the fact that someone decided to to cripple your installation when it was installed. That's a dangerous game. Once you start messing with a Perl installation all sorts of things can go wrong. That's why I'd urge you to fix the problem by reinstalling Perl from scratch.

You say that updating the version of Perl is not an option for you. I'd say that using software that is six years old should be even less of an option. I believe that if you check bugtraq then you'll find security advisories against that version of Perl. That should help persuade whoever needs to make the decision that you really should upgrade as soon as possible.

Having said all of that, the POSIX installation kit for your version of POSIX is here you can download it and use the standard Perl module installation procedures to install.

But please only use that as a last resort. Please try to install a more recent (and more complete) version of Perl first.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: How-to install POSIX.pm by davorg
in thread How-to install POSIX.pm by LeeC79

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