[ic] Re: Newbie Installation Question

[Jim Balcom]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 tburt@timburt.com wrote:

>>A bit of warning regarding the CPAN install routines....
>>
>>I once did as suggested below, and allowed CPAN to auto install some
>>needed modules.  It promptly decided that I was running an outdated
>>version of perl (I was up to date w/rt RH rpms), and proceeded to upgrade
>>my perl to the latest version, without giving me a chance to say no.  The
>>upgrade continued for quite some time, (I was on a T1) and when it was
>>done, several of my previously running perl scripts were now broken.  It
>>took several more hours to remove all of the perl from my machine and
>>reinstall from the RH rpms.  I had several clients on the machine who were
>>inconvenienced by this rogue action.

It has been shown to me that different distributions of Linux install Perl
in different places. You can usually correct this by simply putting in some
symlinks.
Normally, by looking at the first line of the script you can see where the
script is looking for Perl and you can put a symlink in that location. That's much
easier than trying to have a fight with the computer about it.

>>Timothy Burt
>>Internet Specialist

Oh? Very interesting!

-= Jim =-

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