On Oct 1, 2004, at 2:30 PM, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote:
Rudy:
I am doing fresh install of RH9. At the present time, I am by-passing installing PERL or any additional modules. I plan to buy a book to read little and then:
1) Uninstall PERL which came with RH 9 2) Re-install latest verion of PERL 3) Instal DBI & DBD::mysql modules
I have 1-question:
If I install, RH9, mySQL, openSSL, Postfix, dbmail, etc (all latest
versions), would it be a problem to remove PERL & rte-install latest version
of PERL as described in three steps above?
I haven't ever worked with RedHat, but on Solaris 8 and Mac OS X, when I was
dissatisfied with the version of perl that shipped with the OS, I installed a new
separate version on a new path (e.g. /usr/local). Then I made sure that
/usr/local/bin came before /usr/bin on my path, and put
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
at the top of my scripts.
This way, if there is anything system-level that depends on perl, it should
use the version that shipped with the system, and I won't have to worry
about breaking something. Modules should automatically install into the
new perl rather than the system perl (if you change your path as suggested).
It may be that RH9 never uses perl (the RH user next to me says system scripts
tend to be in Python rather than perl, for what that's worth), in which case there
shouldn't be too much of a problem deleting it and replacing it with a newer
version. But perhaps a RH9 user on the list can confirm that for you.
