Hi Bruce, While in CPAN, did you tell it to install Bundle::CPAN to upgrade CPAN to the latest version? If you did, CPAN would have upgraded everything else inside the CPAN bundle - including perl itself. This it puts in the default place if /usr/local/bin/perl. Your problem (and mine) is that RedHat put perl in /usr/bin/perl and symlink it /usr/local/bin/perl, which is why you end up with two version. The way I fixed it was to delete /usr/bin/perl and then so as not to break any scripts that needed it I created /usr/bin/perl as a symlink to /usr/local/bin/perl so that if CPAN upgraded again, both links would be affected. Bear in mind that if your module tree is version specific (i.e. @INC has the version number in the paths) which is the norm, you may lose some modules. You should use CPAN to re-install these missing modules. Gary On Sunday 01 July 2001 12:23 am, Bruce D. Meyer wrote: > O posted this a few days ago, no response. Hopefully one of the super > guru's has a clue with this. I have updated via MCPAN several times, but > only 5.6.1 has started this happening it seems. Here is the original > posting: > > > On two machines now, I have run" > perl -MCPAN -e shell > > (RedHat 7.1, and RedHat 6.2) > > when I query: > which perl > > I get: > /usr/local/bin/perl > > when I run: > > find / -name perl > > I get (among some other stuff) > > /usr/local/bin/perl > /usr/bin/perl > > > Executing: > > /usr/local/bin/perl -V > > gives: > > perl 5.6.1 (I won't type in all the details, it's about a page and a half) > > Entering: > .usr/bin/perl -V > > returns: > > perl 5.6.0 > > I really would prefer that when I update everything with MCPAN that it > overwrites my old perl with the new install. What are the error of my ways? > > Thanks for creating a group for us JAPN's. (JAP-Newbies) > > Bruce Meyer -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000
