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where is your old binary of perl? ($ which perl)

You can do a couple of things. One, specifically refrence the location of 5.6.1 binary in your script. Another would be to copy the old perl binary to some other name and then make a sym link to the 5.6.1 binary in the same location. This might have the effect of breaking some older scripts though. I'd be sure to test everything first before commiting to this.

Hope this helps..
Rich

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Re: How do I get to my new version of Perl
by mandog (Curate) on Aug 28, 2001 at 09:43 UTC

    Speaking of scripts not working w/ 5.6.1...

    Apt-get seemed to stop working for me when I made /usr/bin/perl a symbolic link to to /usr/local/bin/perl.5.6.1

    I did other stuff that maybe wasn't such a good idea, stuff like mixing stable and unstable in /etc/sources.list This may not be relevant....


    --mandog
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