[Pdx-pm] Remove Perl

schwern at pobox.com schwern at pobox.com
Thu Mar 6 08:15:08 CST 2003


On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:33:15PM -0800, Joshua Keroes wrote:
> Friend installed Perl 5.8.0 over Debian's 5.6.1 package.
> He changed his mind and went back to the package when
> he realized that apt-get would give him problems after
> his install.
> 
> How does he completely remove the 5.8.0 install?

Step -1:  Install Perl in /usr/local/perl5.8.0
Step  0:  Symlink /usr/local/perl5.8.0/bin/* to /usr/bin
Step  1:  Remove above symlinks
Step  2:  Hard link /usr/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl5.6.1
Step  2a: Alternatively, simply reinstall the Debian perl-base package.
Step  3:  rm -rf /usr/local/perl5.8.0/

If you follow these easy steps, there's no problem uninstalling Perl.

Or you could make a dpkg out of 5.8.0 the same as Debian does in unstable.

Or you could use something like GNU stow.

If you skipped step -1 and installed it straight into /usr, well... go to
remedial sysadmin school.

There is one way out.  Re-run 'make install' for 5.8.0, capture the output.
In that output should be the paths of everything which was installed.
Remove all that.  Reinstall the Debian package.




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