A clean install of Ubuntu 8.04. I've installed a new perl under /opt/perl. The 
john@ubuntu:~/perl-5.10.1$./Configure -des -Dprefix=/opt/perl
john@ubuntu:~/perl-5.10.1$make
john@ubuntu:~/perl-5.10.1$make test
john@ubuntu:~/perl-5.10.1$make install

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appeared to run fine except for install which complained about permissions. Not sure what to do I 
john@ubuntu:~$cd /opt
john@ubuntu:~$sudo mkdir perl
john@ubuntu:~$sudo chmod 777 perl

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and then the make install ran fine. I created a link 
john@ubuntu:~$cd /usr/local/bin
john@ubuntu:~$sudo ln -isv /opt/perl/bin/perl perl

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john@ubuntu:~$ls -l /usr/local/bin/perl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-02-28 10:50 /usr/local/bin/perl -> /opt
+/perl/bin/perl

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This gave me: 
john@ubuntu:~$/usr/local/bin/perl -e 'print "$]\n";'
5.010001
john@ubuntu:~$/usr/bin/perl -e 'print "$]\n";'
5.008008

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So far so good, but 
john@ubuntu:~$perl -e 'print "$]\n";'
5.008008

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which wasn't what I was expecting. And worse 
john@ubuntu:~$sudo perl -e 'print "$]\n";'
5.010001

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The path is (extract) 
john@ubuntu:~$echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin: ... /usr/bin: ...

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Can anyone see how I managed to screw it up? And is it possible to straighten it out? Do you need any more info?

fwiw, I'm looking to convert some cgi apps to mod_perl. I'm renting a cheap VPS as a "sandbox" but before I let myself loose on that I've set up a spare box with the same OS. At the back of my mind is how to tell Apache/mod_perl to use the perl under /opt/perl. But I fear I have a long way to go before I need worry about that (e.g. learning unix and fighting vim). :-)

As always, thanks in advance.

Updated: corrected the paths in the first code block

In reply to Permissions for a separately installed perl by wfsp

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