On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:07:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>Hi: I have both perl 5.6.1 and perl 5.6.0 on my system. > >What're the steps to remove them, and prepare for install of perl 5.8? > >When I run locate perl 5.6.0, I get a list of files. Is this the way to >do it? File by file? If I were you I would keep your 5.61 version as a backup in case 5.8 gives you some trouble. There could be some modules which have slightly changed, etc. You could do perl -V and it will show you where the libs are for each perl version, then you can delete the whole libdir in 1 shot. So you must have a way of keeping 5.60 and 5.6.1 separated in your system? Like having the the perl5.6.1 executable in /usr/local/bin and perl5.6.0 in /usr/bin ?? And letting the path select which perl is used? /usr/local/bin is usually searched first, before /usr/bin. Another thing you can do is rename your perls to perl560 and perl561. You can then just install 5.8.0 to it's default location, /usr/local/bin/perl. It will become your default, but if you need to run 561, then you can still do #!/usr/bin/perl561 Each perl executable knows where to look for it's own libraries. The default for 5.8 is in /usr/local/lib/perl5 but you might have your 5.6.1 in /usr/lib/perl5. That is where Suse likes to install them, so if you install your own to the default location, in /usr/local/lib, they will become the default perl, because /usr/local/bin is normally searched before /usr/bin in the default path. That is why some distros put perl in /usr/lib. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
