cannot install MailScanner due to 2 instances of Perl

[Peter Bonivart]

Dene Ulmschneider wrote:
> How can I get this to work?

As far as I know Linux doesn't have any dependencies to any special Perl
version. Why didn't you upgrade from 5.8.0 to 5.8.3 instead of adding 5.8.3?

On Solaris it's different, version 9 provides 5.6.1 compiled with Sun's
compiler so if you don't have that (and want to use gcc instead) you
need to install a Perl package compiled with gcc. Luckily Solaris own
usage of the 5.6.1 modules have complete paths so it's OK to install a
new Perl in /usr/local and link to it from /usr/bin.

Have you tried that?

# ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl

If that doesn't work I would get rid of 5.8.0 and replace it completely
with 5.8.3. If it's a new server you're building you shouldn't have any
strange dependencies to 5.8.0.

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/Peter Bonivart

--Unix lovers do it in the Sun

Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.29.7,
SpamAssassin 2.63 + DCC 1.2.39, ClamAV 0.70RC + GMP 4.1.2, MailStats 0.25