FreeBSD 4.7: Perl Questions

[Bill Moran]

Jason Lieurance wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have Freebsd 4.7 and I have perl 5.00503 and I ran 'perl -MCPAN -e
> shell' Then at the cpan prompt I ran  install bundle or something and it
> started loading a bunch of things but finally it had an error and couldn't
> finish. But  now I have my original perl in /usr/bin and another perl in
> /usr/local/bin. I don't think the 5.8 finished because of the error but
> its there. How do I clear up the perl mess? Should I upgrade to 5.8? I
> need some perl modules installed for some programs but I get this error
> when I go to install the modules 'don't know how to make
> /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach/CORE/opnames.h. Stop'. That's why I'm
> trying to upgrade in the first place. Thanks.

I recommend using the ports to install perl modules.

Not knowing exactly what you did, it's difficult to tell you how to clean
it up.  I would suggest backing up /usr/local/bin and then trying to manually
rm any perl directories.  If you delete something you shouldn't you can
restore from backup.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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