Re: Debian Perl packages, modules - how to cleanup extras
(specs include: debian 2.2 r3, stable; perl 5.6.1 in /usr/local..)
Colin Watson wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:42:08PM -0500, S. Taylor wrote:
>> What's Debian's procedure for installing and maintaining perl?
>> At the beginning, dselect insisted that packages for perl-5.004
>> and perl-5.005 be installed. Is it necessary
>perl-5.004 is probably obsolete, and certainly obsolete in woody. In
>potato it's possible that some packages depended on it.
>> Other lib*-perl packages were installed and recently perl 5.6.1 was
>> compiled, successfully, after most defaults were accepted.
>
>I hope you didn't put it in /usr/bin ... If you compile perl yourself,
>it must go in /usr/local or you'll very likely break things.
- that's where perl's defaults, /usr/local, probably saved me.
>> What configuration do I change in what files to eliminate the
>> duplicate files?
>
>Try to remove perl-5.004.
"Apt-get remove perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base " happened without a hitch.
(Thanks)
>> Can I (and how do I ) "hold" some packages while I clean up?
>'=' in dselect.
Yes, as the docs say. But even with the R option, dselect has
usually refused to accept changes to its dependencies lists
>> If more debian perl packages are installed, will perl 5.6.1 find them?
>
>If you compiled it yourself, maybe not, and I wouldn't try if I were
>you. The perl 5.6.1 in woody will though.
If it's in 'stable' I can't find it. 'dpkg -l perl*' shows the 5.004,
5.005 packages
Thanks/st
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