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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

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