Dear Perlmonks, I'm new at this, sorry if this is in the wrong place. Ultimately, I want to design some web pages on my local Red Hat Server (7.2) using GD and/or Image::Magick. I've done some basic stuff - posting perl pages from /cgi-bin/, but now I want to upgrade perl and then add more graphics related perl modules. However, I have fallen at the first hurdle.... The system is currently running perl 5.6.0. I've upgraded to 5.8.1 using the rpm distro from ActivePerl, and then again using the latest stable.gz from CPAN. Both appear to install ok, butr when I perl -v, it tells me I still have 5.6.0 I installed from an account other than root. I assume I need to tell the system how to use perl 5.8.0 for all users somehow. Is there some global parameter somewhere that I need to set? Or does something need to be added to a login script in the user account? I'm using BASH Any advice or pointers gratefully received. Thanks, Clunk.

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