Re: CPAN fooled me into upgrading

Use Fedora's package manager to re-install perl 5.8.8. I don't know if you can easily uninstall perl 5.10.0 without leaving any tainting behind.

If you have a recent backup available, it might be easiest to restore it, instead of fiddling with the 5.8.8 vs. 5.10.0 issue.

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Re^2: CPAN fooled me into upgrading by JAndrieu (Novice) on Jul 18, 2008 at 17:32 UTC
Unfortunately, neither yum nor rpm know anything about 5.10.0, and uninstalling 5.8.8 through rpm and reinstalling via yum don't get rid of 5.10.0. One thing I've discovered is that 5.8.8 is in /usr/lib/perl5 while 5.10.0 is in /usr/local/lib/perl5. So, I removed the contents of /usr/local/lib/perl5, which only seemed to kill perldoc. Now my @INC still points to the 5.10.0 dirs and "perl -v" still reports 5.10.0 as the version. Where is @INC getting set? And how to I actually get rid of 5.10.0?	[reply]

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Re^2: CPAN fooled me into upgrading
by JAndrieu (Novice) on Jul 18, 2008 at 17:32 UTC

Unfortunately, neither yum nor rpm know anything about 5.10.0, and uninstalling 5.8.8 through rpm and reinstalling via yum don't get rid of 5.10.0.

One thing I've discovered is that 5.8.8 is in /usr/lib/perl5 while 5.10.0 is in /usr/local/lib/perl5.

So, I removed the contents of /usr/local/lib/perl5, which only seemed to kill perldoc. Now my @INC still points to the 5.10.0 dirs and "perl -v" still reports 5.10.0 as the version.

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