in reply to install another perl without disturbing the older install?

I would suggest installing the new perl with a completely different PREFIX - conventionally people will use /usr/local/ so your perl binary is at /usr/local/bin/perl and your libraries are in /usr/local/lib/.

/J\

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Re^2: install another perl without disturbing the older install?
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 27, 2006 at 21:11 UTC
    should i still rename the perl binary? because if our PATH is:

    /usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

    then anything such as a cron job or a command for 'perl' would bring up the wrong (newer) version, right?

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