On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:15:27PM +1300, David Orlovich wrote: > Hi fink users. > > Somehow I've managed to stop fink from working. I've been playing > around a bit today so I'll outline what the problem is, and how I > managed to get to it:
[snip] > > So, what did I do to get to this? Well, today I installed (by hand) a > new perl (5.8.2). Instead of installing it in /usr/bin (which is where > 5.8.1 was installed), I installed it in /usr/local/bin. I didn't > really mean to do it this way ... but I did. Anyway, after upgrading > perl, I did 'perl -v' and it still showed perl-5.8.1, which is when I > realised I was putting it in a different place. Then what I did was > deleted perl from /usr/bin, and then perl -v showed the newest version: > > [fungus:~] davidorlovich% perl -v > > This is perl, v5.8.2 built for darwin > <etc etc> > > and now my perl is > > [fungus:~] davidorlovich% which perl > /usr/local/bin/perl > > Next time I tried to run fink, I got the 'command not found', whereas > it worked fine before I played around with perl. I really don't see > how these are connected anyway but somehow there is a problem and I > can't figure it out! Fink is a script, interpreted by the command on the first line: #!/usr/bin/perl -w which is now bye-bye. Make a link from /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl, and that should clear it up (you could just change the script to point to the new perl, but that wouldn't help others that assume perl is in /usr/bin/...) -- GPG public key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9D5B8762 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
