Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:17:22 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: ajohn@cyberforge.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: How to make Perl 5 the default... Message-ID: <32E5E932.3B07@barcode.co.il> References: <199701220234.VAA10160@onramp.i95.net>
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Anil John wrote: > > Greetings, > > When I set up my FreeBSD box (2.1.5) I had installed the perl5 port > that came on the CD rom. The only problem now is that when I do a > 'perl -v', the system tells me that I am running Perl v4.0. > > There seems to be a /usr/share/perl (perl4) directory and a > /usr/local/lib/perl5 (Perl5 ?). Those have nothing to do with the perl binary. > > There is a perl executable in /usr/bin There should also be a perl5.003 (or something like that) in /usr/local/bin. > > How do I set it up so that I am running perl5 as my default? I am > new to unix, so step by step explantions would be appreciated :) > > Anil One way would be: su # cd /usr/bin # mv perl perl4 # ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl5.003 perl This would make a link names /usr/bin/perl that will point to the perl5 binary. See man ln. Nadav
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