From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 10:11:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com (pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com [80.1.76.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 166C437B400 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28242 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2002 18:11:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO matt.thebigchoice.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Feb 2002 18:11:09 -0000 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:11:08 +0000 From: Matt H To: Cc: gregbrooks@blue-mouse.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPAN, Perl modules and FreeBSD Message-Id: <20020213181108.2fb2fdd5.matt@proweb.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020213183029.C50421-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net> References: <002801c1b4ae$9ee2d6e0$6d01a8c0@CITYMOUSE> <20020213183029.C50421-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > use.perl port > > This selects the version of perl installed from ports. > > so perl -v = This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-freebsd > > To switch back to the base perl use: > > use.perl system > > perl -v = This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd > > Very clever!! it was too clever for me the first time round, I manually removed perl 5.005 and installed 5.6 only to see many things fail (can't remeber what). It turned out I had somehow typed #rm -rf /usr/local/lib/* instead of #rm -rf /usr/local/lib/perl/* that was a busy day! M To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message