Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:11:08 +0000 From: Matt H <matt@proweb.co.uk> To: <jason+freebsd@kanda.com> Cc: gregbrooks@blue-mouse.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPAN, Perl modules and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020213181108.2fb2fdd5.matt@proweb.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020213183029.C50421-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net> References: <002801c1b4ae$9ee2d6e0$6d01a8c0@CITYMOUSE> <20020213183029.C50421-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net>
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> use.perl port > > This selects the version of perl installed from ports. > > so perl -v = This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-freebsd > > To switch back to the base perl use: > > use.perl system > > perl -v = This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd > > Very clever!! it was too clever for me the first time round, I manually removed perl 5.005 and installed 5.6 only to see many things fail (can't remeber what). It turned out I had somehow typed #rm -rf /usr/local/lib/* instead of #rm -rf /usr/local/lib/perl/* that was a busy day! M To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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