On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:39:49PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > 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
wrong, perl 5.6 no longer supports alternatives. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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