what does this error mean

[Julian Field]

At 10:03 28/10/2002, you wrote:
>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)

In which case you will need to modify the first line of the perl scripts so
they startup your preferred copy of Perl.
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