Ohm...ohm...(draining resistance...) This most unworthy novitiate is in need of asking assistance of those wiser than he beyond the Perl Gates. I am in the process of migrating applications from AIX to Linux. Other application environments came first. Now I need to move the Perl apps. The original apps run under 5.8.8 on AIX. To migrate them, I had installed RHEL5.4 on a server, and from the RHN site, installed 5.8.8 with several additional packages. I also performed a basic upgrade to make the various modules in use current from an RHN perspective. That is where the trouble started. I've installed base RPM's from RHN, and have also attempted to install additional modules through CPAN. I'm sure I did something wrong. I couldn't go through an exact set of steps that I've performed. All this started about a week and a half ago. Since then, because of what one of the messages said (which I can't quote right now) I attempted to install 5.12.1 through CPAN. Enough has gone wrong now that I think I need to punt, and start over. But I don't see anywhere what I need to do to remove Perl and start over. At this point, I've attempted installation of Perl under /opt, /usr/local, and at the standard places that RHN RPMs put things - basically, under /usr. I can probably use yum to remove those things installed by the RHN installation. For others, what do I need to do? Can I just delete things? If so, what? How? Just use "rm" of those things under "/usr/*/perl5", in addition to things under /usr/bin that are perl? Or is there something else? I can't keep burning time without results, so I'm coming to you all, unworthy as I am, to ask for help. Thanks in advance. I look forward to hearing from you. Snide

In reply to Installing/Upgrading 5.8.8 to 5.12.1 by snidley

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