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Hi Richard,

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:51:36 -0600, "Richard Babcock"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about [newbie] broken sym links (was many
perl things broken):

>here is what I found
>#ls -la /usr/bin/perl
>#lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            5 Nov  3 07:23 
>/usr/bin/perl -> perl5
>#ls -la /usr/bin/perl5
>#lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Nov  3 07:22 
>/usr/bin/perl5 -> perl5.6.1
>#locate perl5.6.1
>#(nothing)
>#locate perl5.
>#/usr/bin/sperl5.8.0
>#/usr/bin/perl5.8.0
>
>does this mean that the symlink is looking for 5.6.1 and I only 
>have 5.8.0?
>is it easy to change or replace the symlink?

Yes, it should be:

====
# cd /usr/bin

# rm perl5

rm: remove symbolic link `perl5`? y

# ln -s /usr/bin/perl5.8.1 perl5
====

That should do it.

Regards,
=Dick Gevers=

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