3 dunnos, 2 see the bash man pages, Jeff I'm disappointed :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Newmiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 7:20 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Upgrading perl on debian > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Jay Strauss wrote: > > > Howdy, > > > > How do I upgrade perl on deb? The current stable (at least i think) is > > 5.005. and it is installed in /usr/lib/perl5/5.005. Now when I've > > installed perl from source I've always done it into /usr/local/perl. Now I > > know that where I install it is > > my decision. So I have 2 questions: > > > > 1) Do I have to go into unstable packages to get a more recent version of > > perl > > Testing has perl5.6. > > > 2) Can I install (from source) into/on top of /usr/local/perl without > > messing up other deb software that may use perl > > I dunno, but I wouldn't. > > > > > Other unrelated questions: > > > > 1) where is the file that controls the default path, i.e if I don't have a > > .bashrc or counterparts, what file is read to give me a path > > man bash, under invocation (not incantation) > > > 2) Does deb have a menu based admin tool, similar to linuxconf > > Well, there is dselect, but apt-get and apt-cache are much more powerful. > > > 3) I had to modify my .Xdefaults file for my backspace/delete keys to work > > correctly. Is there a system wide file I can edit instead of the .Xdefaults > > in every home directory > > Dunno. > > > 4) I'm used to being able to edit my command line with vi commands, I tried > > doing "export EDITOR=vi" but that didn't work > > man bash under Readline variables > > > 5) When I'm in vi and I'm in insert mode, then hit the arrow keys I get "A" > > "B"... how can I make the arrow keys get me back into escape mode and move > > me > > Dunno. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
