Re: Debian Perl packages, modules - how to cleanup extras
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.
> What configuration do I change in what files to eliminate the
> duplicate files?
Try to remove perl-5.004.
> Can I (and how do I ) "hold" some packages while I clean up?
'=' in dselect.
> 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.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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