removing an installation of perl

[Brian Bartley]

All,
I attempted to install perl 5.8.7 from precompiled bundle on HP-UX 11.11, but I got many error from perl programs, something is wrong with the installation. So I adjusted the perl scripts to work with perl 5.6.1, which was already on the system from our installation of 11.11. The install paths are different, the perl 5.8.7 executatble went to /usr/local/bin/perl, and 5.6.1's executable is in /opt/perl/bin/perl. Should I be able to remove perl 5.8.7 with swremove without affecting our working version of 5.6.1? Thanks,

Brian

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Brian,
yes, but how you remove 5.8.7 will depend on how you installed it:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=5941

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

What were the errors, and what bundle did you install?

Calling perl by the full path would enable you to have them run side-by-side

make the `working' version be found in your $PATH before the other, and no problems should occur. No need to uninstall.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Brian Bartley]

Thanks for the replies, I'm going to remove 5.8.7 with swremove, and have the 5.6.1 bundle ready to re-install, just in case. Thanks,

Brian