mike polniak wrote: > > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > > renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any > > issues with using it or it interfering with Debian's vital utilities? > > Well i have both perl-5.6 and 5.005 installed. Dont recall how i > did that but i always use apt-get: > > /usr/bin/perl-5.005 > /usr/bin/perl5.6.0
The alternatives system probably takes care of it. /usr/bin/perl is probably a symlink to /etc/alternatives/perl, which is in turn a symlink to either /usr/bin/perl-5.005 or /usr/bin/perl5.6.0 Matthew
