in reply to Re^3: installing perl 5.12.3
in thread installing perl 5.12.3

I have also added export PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH to $HOME/bashrc

but to no avail

any further suggestions or recommendations on how this fool can mend his ways???

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Re^5: installing perl 5.12.3
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2011 at 16:35 UTC
    since you seem to have sorted out your dilemma, for posterity, you should run this program using a full path to your target perl binary, like
    $home/localperl/bin/perl path900554.pl