> I have installed perl 8

Perl 8?  What cool features does that have?  Can I borrow your time
machine?

>  on redhat 9 and I installed it from source. (not 
> an rpm) however, when I did a redhat up2date, the rpm's were then 
> re-installed.

Hmmm... I don't use RedHat, so I'm not sure how up2date works, but I'd
guess that it may have seen Perl 5.8 as a failed RPM installation or
something.

> I think that the rpm installed perl in /usr/bin
> and the source install put it in /usr/local/bin

Quite possibly.  You only need to know this if you did anything besides
the default ./configure (i.e. purposely installed it in
/var/logs/not_really_a_log/ha/ive/hidden/perl to be silly/)

> can I safely uninstall the perl rpm's without messing up the other 
> installation from source?

It shouldn't hurt your system too much.  I suppose there is a good
chance that uninstalling an RPM will uninstall a dependency that the
source install links to.  Why are you installing a source version
anyways?  You shouldn't mix and match sources and RPMS.  It's bad form
and can lead to problems.

-Dan


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