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>29.14. CGI.pm Perl library</A
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>&#13;      The CGI.pm is a Perl5 library for writing World Wide Web <SPAN
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> scripts. Older versions of this software exist by default on your system, but they are buggy. It's recommended that you update your copy to version 2.56, at least. To
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>&#13;      These are the package(s)
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>&#13;        CGI.pm Homepage: <A
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>&#13;      You must be sure to download: CGI_pm_tar.gz
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>&#13;      CGI.pm version number is 2.56
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>&#13;      [root@deep ]/# <B
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>cp</B
> CGI_pm_tar.gz /var/tmp/
      [root@deep ]/# <B
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>cd</B
> /var/tmp/
      [root@deep ]/tmp# <B
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>tar</B
> xzpf CGI_pm_tar.gz
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>&#13;      First of all, well check the version of CGI.pm installed in our system with the following command:
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>&#13;        [root@deep ]/# <B
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>&#13;      Move into the new CGI.pm directory and type the following commands on your terminal to compile and install the updated libraries on your Linux server:
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>&#13;        [root@deep ]/CGI.pm-2.56# <B
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>perl</B
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        [root@deep ]/CGI.pm-2.56# <B
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>make</B
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        [root@deep ]/CGI.pm-2.56# <B
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>make test</B
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>make install</B
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>&#13;      Please do cleanup later:
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>&#13;        [root@deep ]/# <B
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        [root@deep ]/tmp# <B
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>rm</B
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>/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/auto/CGI</TT
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