Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

[Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au>]

mike polniak wrote:
> 
> Arcady Genkin wrote:
> > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default
> > 5.005.  Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and
> > renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any
> > issues with using it or it interfering with Debian's vital utilities?
> 
>         Well i have both perl-5.6 and 5.005 installed. Dont recall how i
> did that but i always use apt-get:
> 
> /usr/bin/perl-5.005
> /usr/bin/perl5.6.0

The alternatives system probably takes care of it. /usr/bin/perl is
probably a symlink to /etc/alternatives/perl, which is in turn a symlink
to either /usr/bin/perl-5.005 or /usr/bin/perl5.6.0


Matthew