pat Wrote: 
> First find where perl is on your path. Easy way is to fire up a shell
> and do 
> 
> which perl
> 
> on my machine, I get
> 
> /usr/bin/perl

Yep, same on mine.

> chasing that down a bit, use
> 
> file /usr/bin/perl
> 
> which I get
> 
> /usr/bin/perl: symbolic link to `perl5'

Yep, exactly the same.

> This is, in turn, another pointer to
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 30 19:52 perl5 -> perl5.8.5*
> 
> Doing a file on that,
> file perl5.8.5
> perl5.8.5: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
> for
> GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> 
> Which is what you need.
Wo, stop. You've lost me there. What exactly do I type here?


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