I have an instance where I have needed to build my own perl. The existing perl installed by apt-get (sarge) resides in /usr/bin, and is 5.8.4. The perl I have built is 5.8.7, and I took the defaults and installed this to /usr/local/bin (libraries to /usr/local/lib/perl5 etc.)

My new perl comes first in the path, and that is the one that I want to use for everything. CPAN installs work fine, as do CPANPLUS. My problem is that I have installed some more distributions with apt-get, which have perl bindings. These have gone into /usr/lib/ and are only visible from 5.8.4.

I know I can repoint PERL5LIB to add the lib paths, but I am looking for a more permanent solution.

Should I rebuild my perl with different config options, to give me an @INC with the other lib directories included?

Should I install my perl over the top of the one in /usr/bin and /usr/lib? (this seems more risky to me)

What's the best way of dealing with this?

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In reply to A problem with two perls on a Debian system by rinceWind

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