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Kelly Hamlin fizz at BOMB.NET
Mon Jan 21 15:56:49 GMT 2002


last question then ill go away :)
Do i need to remove the old installs of perl? is there an easy way to do
this?
i have perl installed in 3 locations now that i do some searching. cpan
screwed it up :(
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/local/lib/perl5/siteperl
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Hicks" <chicks at CHICKS.NET>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: Sendmail Logs


> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Kelly Hamlin wrote:
>
> > on another note, when i did the updates with CPAN it installed 5.6.1
> > of perl, is it possible it didnt install sys::syslog?
>
> More likely you have conflicting versions of perl running around on your
> machine.  CPAN isn't supposed to upgrade perl.  That it did is accidental,
> not intentional - there have been several CPAN bugs where it failed to
> recognize the core perl distribution as such.  A clean install of perl
> from rpm or src might be in order.  Make sure you get rid of all remnants
> of your old and new perl before you do that.
>
> On Red Hat machines I generally reinstall CPAN.pm before anything else,
> log out of the CPAN shell, and back in.  That seems to get around the core
> distribution recognition problem.
>
> --
> </chris>
>
> "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a good book.
> Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."   -  Groucho Marx
>



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