Thanks for the response. Actually the perl is originally in /bin/,
since the package asks for it, I just make a soft link in
/usr/local/bin/perl pointing to /bin/perl and put the /usr/local/bin/
before /bin in the PATH env. variable. Will this cause any problem?

Xin


On 14 Feb 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:

> Dave Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>  
> > 2. trying to install a rpm made on a different major number version
> >    (i.e. a RedHat 6.x rpm on a RedHat 7.x system) is asking for
> >    troubles due to different glibc versions.
> 
> Actually, packages from previous versions should work just fine.
> (well, from 5.0 and later, at least. libc5 support is not included
> with RHL 7)
>  
> > 4. rpm is only aware of other packages installed by rpm.  The fact
> >    that perl is in /usr/local/bin makes me wonder if perl was
> >    installed with rpm since RedHat doesn't put any files in /usr/local
> 
> Probably the problem here.
> 
> 
> 

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