(specs include: debian 2.2 r3, stable; perl 5.6.1 in /usr/local..) Colin Watson wrote: >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. - that's where perl's defaults, /usr/local, probably saved me. >> What configuration do I change in what files to eliminate the >> duplicate files? > >Try to remove perl-5.004. "Apt-get remove perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base " happened without a hitch. (Thanks) >> Can I (and how do I ) "hold" some packages while I clean up? >'=' in dselect. Yes, as the docs say. But even with the R option, dselect has usually refused to accept changes to its dependencies lists >> 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. If it's in 'stable' I can't find it. 'dpkg -l perl*' shows the 5.004, 5.005 packages Thanks/st
