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Re: spamassassin: recovery from CPAN install



Tom Allison said:

> Let me guess.
> CPAN puts it in ...perl/5.6.1/...
> and
> Debian puts it somewhere else...

as it should.. CPAN installs by default to /usr/local (as do most
3rd party programs), distributions install their stuff to /usr for
the most part.

>
> If they are both in the same path, can't they "find" each other so  I
> don't have to have multiple installs of the same .pm?

just a guess, I'm no perl guru but possibly perl may see both
modules but may be using the /usr/local one because it could be
newer.

nate





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