what does this error mean

[David Lee]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Julian Field wrote:

> At 16:47 26/10/2002, you wrote:
> >I have found I have two versions of perl on my system...
> >
> >/usr/bin/perl -v = 5.6.0 which was installed as a Red Hat rpm
> >/usr/local/bin/perl -v = 5.8.0 which CPAN auto installed :(
>
> How did I guess? :(
>
> >Is there a correct way to remove 5.8.0?
>
> Look in /usr/local for any directories or files that mention perl, perl5 or
> 5.8.0 and delete them. Your original Perl installation won't mention 5.8.0
> anywhere, and will not have any files under /usr/local.
>
> [...]
> I'm going to add a check for /usr/local/bin/perl at the start of the
> install.sh script, so other people don't hit the same problem in the future.

Care:  For some sites, "/usr/local/bin/perl" might actually be the
preferred location.  (At "/usr/bin/perl", Sun, for instance, have either
nothing, or they stick an ancient version;  at such installations
"/usr/local/bin/perl" might actually be the decent, locally installed,
5.6.x)

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