Delete one version of Perl

[Vishnu]

Hello Everyone,
I am new to Perl and Linux. Am running RH9 and am trying to get
interchange running on it. Interchange required threaded perl and so I
compiled Perl 5.8.3 into /usr/local/bin.

Interchange then gives me a safe::hole missing module error. So I
tried

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Interchange'

It tries to load it into the default Perl version which is 5.8.0 in
/usr/bin and again gives me a host of errors saying make test not OK
and that I should force an install.

My question: How do I uninstall/delete the Perl that is installed in
/usr/bin that came with RH9. I tried rpm -e but there are a host of
dependent applications. Should I force it to uninstall? Should I just
copy the new perl files into /usr/bin??

Thanks in advance.

Vishnu

 

[Ben Morrow]

Hello Everyone,
I am new to Perl and Linux. Am running RH9 and am trying to get
interchange running on it. Interchange required threaded perl and so I
compiled Perl 5.8.3 into /usr/local/bin.

Interchange then gives me a safe::hole missing module error. So I

^^^^^^^^^^
Safe::Hole. Case is important.

tried

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Interchange'

It tries to load it into the default Perl version which is 5.8.0 in
/usr/bin and again gives me a host of errors saying make test not OK
and that I should force an install.

My question: How do I uninstall/delete the Perl that is installed in
/usr/bin that came with RH9. I tried rpm -e but there are a host of
dependent applications. Should I force it to uninstall? Should I just
copy the new perl files into /usr/bin??

Either upgrade your system perl to 5.8.3-threads with rpm, or use your
own perl for Interchange:

/usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e'install Bundle::Interchange'

Ben

 

[Vishnu]

Thanks a bunch.......xactly wat I was looking for....