Re^2: Help! @INC problem

Thanks, chromatic.

I ran perl -v which told me that my current version was 5.8.5. So although 5.6.1 is still on my system it doesn't seem to be installed.

So I just reinstalled all the modules that I had previously installed for 5.6.1, using MCPAN, and things work again! Hurrah.

I still have 5.6.1 on the box. Do I just let it be or should I delete that whole folder?

Thanks again.

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Re^3: Help! @INC problem by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 09, 2004 at 18:47 UTC
If things work with 5.8.5 (and I don't know of any regressions that might affect you), it should be safe to delete the 5.6.1 folders. It won't hurt to keep them around, but if you're careful, it shouldn't hurt to delete them. If you're really paranoid, you might rename them and leave them be for a while to see if all of your required applications still work. When you've satisfied your paranoia, then delete them. Perl 5.8.x won't use those libraries by default, though, and it won't use some of them well at all.	[reply]

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Re^3: Help! @INC problem
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 09, 2004 at 18:47 UTC

If things work with 5.8.5 (and I don't know of any regressions that might affect you), it should be safe to delete the 5.6.1 folders. It won't hurt to keep them around, but if you're careful, it shouldn't hurt to delete them.

If you're really paranoid, you might rename them and leave them be for a while to see if all of your required applications still work. When you've satisfied your paranoia, then delete them.

Perl 5.8.x won't use those libraries by default, though, and it won't use some of them well at all.

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