On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:42:08PM -0500, S. Taylor wrote: > What's Debian's procedure for installing and maintaining perl? > > At the beginning, dselect insisted that packages for perl-5.004 > and perl-5.005 be installed. Is it necessary
perl-5.004 is probably obsolete, and certainly obsolete in woody. In potato it's possible that some packages depended on it. > Other lib*-perl packages were installed and recently perl 5.6.1 was > compiled, successfully, after most defaults were accepted. I hope you didn't put it in /usr/bin ... If you compile perl yourself, it must go in /usr/local or you'll very likely break things. > What configuration do I change in what files to eliminate the > duplicate files? Try to remove perl-5.004. > Can I (and how do I ) "hold" some packages while I clean up? '=' in dselect. > If more debian perl packages are installed, will perl 5.6.1 find them? If you compiled it yourself, maybe not, and I wouldn't try if I were you. The perl 5.6.1 in woody will though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
