version 4 upgrade and 2 perl versions

[Julian Field]

At 16:45 30/10/2002, you wrote:
>My apologies if this has been addressed recently and I missed it. This is kind
>of related to an earlier question but not exactly.
>
>I have been going through the install script for version 4 in preperation for
>the migration. I noticed that it checks for cpan maintained versions of perl
>in /usr/local. I have run the section of the install script and it does
>indeed report that I have two versions, which of course I do. Not being a
>perl type myself I have this question with my situation:
>
>On my mail server
>[root at ns2 /root]# ls -l /usr/bin/perl
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           19 Mar 19  2002 /usr/bin/perl ->
>/usr/local/bin/perl
>Obviously the above was output on a single line.
>
>And of course;
>[root at ns2 /root]# /usr/bin/perl -v
>This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-linux
>
>[root at ns2 /root]# /usr/local/bin/perl -v
>This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-linux
>
>My question is with perl being linked to the /usr/local/bin/perl is it still
>recommended to remove all traces of perl in /usr/local as suggested in the
>install script?

No, as you don't actually have 2 installations. Just run
         ./install.sh ignore-perl
and it will skip the check and carry on.
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