# Perl 5.12 or higher

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**Category:** SLES Install-Boot\
**Created:** [September 2, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/perl-5-12-or-higher/26031 "2014-09-02T17:05:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/perl-5-12-or-higher/26031/1 "2014-09-02T17:05:50Z")

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we need at Minimum Perl 5.12 for SLES11SP3 x86  
SLES11SP3 have all new patches and updates and Perl 5.10 is installed

by downloading the packets from opensource perl-base-5.12.3-11.14.1.i586.rpm we become a installation error: Failed dependencies perl-base 5.10 is needed by  
the same error comes on perl-5.12.3-11.14.1.x86\_64.rpm (perl = 5.10.0 is needed by …

how it is possible to install a newer version of perl as 5.10

thanks for help

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**Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/perl-5-12-or-higher/26031/2 "2014-09-02T19:09:13Z")

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On 02/09/2014 15:14, Cgreiner wrote:  
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> we need at Minimum Perl 5.12 for SLES11SP3 x86[/color]

Can I ask why?  
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> SLES11SP3 have all new patches and updates and Perl 5.10 is installed[/color]

Perl 5.10 is the latest version of Perl available and supported by SUSE  
for SLES11 SP3. Even the openSUSE Build Service doesn’t have a later  
version available.  
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> by downloading the packets from opensource  
> perl-base-5.12.3-11.14.1.i586.rpm we become a installation error: Failed  
> dependencies perl-base 5.10 is needed by  
> the same error comes on perl-5.12.3-11.14.1.x86\_64.rpm (perl = 5.10.0  
> is needed by …
> 
> how it is possible to install a newer version of perl as 5.10[/color]

Wherever you got perl-base-5.12.3-11.14.1.i586.rpm you’ll need to grab  
perl-5.12.3-11.14.1.i586.rpm plus other perl-\*-5.12.3-11.14.1.i586.rpm  
files. Note that you won’t be supported by SUSE should you have any issues.

What’s your timescale for requiring Perl 5.12? I ask because it’s  
possible that SLES12 will include a newer version of Perl.

## HTH.

Simon  
SUSE Knowledge Partner

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