Re: How to make symlink to new upgraded Perl?

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Re^2: How to make symlink to new upgraded Perl? by bulrush (Scribe) on Jun 15, 2015 at 12:22 UTC
I knew generally you are right but this is a special case. The system perl was installed years ago by me, so me and 4 others are the only people who use this box, and we use only perl scripts that I made. So it shouldn't be an issue to change the link to point to the new perl.	[reply]
Re^3: How to make symlink to new upgraded Perl? by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 15, 2015 at 12:24 UTC
The vendor Perl belongs to the vendor. Maybe some Redhat scripts also use Perl (5.8.8) and expect some modules to be available. I recommend against replacing the vendor Perl with a different version.	[reply]
Re^4: How to make symlink to new upgraded Perl? by bulrush (Scribe) on Jun 15, 2015 at 12:26 UTC
My bad. The old 5.8.8 perl was installed by me in a different 5.8.8 directory somewhere on the system (i.e. not in my home dir), and /usr/bin/perl currently points to 5.8.8. I don't even know where the "real" system vendor perl is.	[reply]