On May 18, 2005, at 2:58 PM, John Delacour wrote:
At 14:51 -0400 18/5/05, Sherm Pendley wrote:
If you installed it under the default location /usr/local, then your old Perl 5.8.6 will still be there - if you made /usr/bin/ perl a symlink to /usr/local/bin/perl, then the symlink would have been wiped out, but that's easy to fix.
Thanks for the lightning-fast reply, Sherm!
Entirely by coincidence, to be honest - you happened to post your message just a few minutes before I checked for new list messages for the first time today. I hadn't even noticed the time stamp on it, just that it was a new message that hadn't yet been answered. :-)
I'm glad to say I did install in /usr/local, so I look forward to hearing how to carry out the easy fix.
Just delete /usr/bin/perl - don't worry, it's just a link to /usr/bin/ perl5.8.6, so you can revert to Apple's Perl at any time. Then create a new symlink /usr/bin/perl that points to /usr/local/bin/perl:
sudo rm /usr/bin/perl
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perlsherm--
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