You don't want to do that.

You really, really don't want to do that.

Many components of your operating system rely on /usr/bin/perl being there, and some of them rely on it being a specific version of Perl (or at least haven't been tested with any other version) and possibly also require it to be built with certain options. If you remove it, you will almost certainly break your OS badly enough that it may not be possible to recover, short of reinstalling the OS from scratch.

Now, if you want to install an additional version of Perl, then that's perfectly fine - many people even recommend this as a Best Practice because it insulates you from changes to the system perl and allows you to run a newer version of Perl if you so choose. If you really wanted to, you could even install every existing version of Perl on your machine at the same time and run them all side-by-side with no problems. But leave /usr/bin/perl and your distribution's perl package alone.

In reply to Re: unintstall and Install Perl linux by dsheroh
in thread unintstall and Install Perl linux by yaklichk0719

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