perl and berkeley

David J. Weller-Fahy dave-lists-freebsd-questions at weller-fahy.com
Wed May 26 16:32:02 PDT 2004


* Len Conrad <LConrad at Go2France.com> [2004-05-26 14:18 -0800]:
> 1. installed a perl mod that decided it needed Perl 5.8.  that went
> ok, but now I've got
>
> /usr/bin/perl          5.0
> /usr/local/bin/perl   5.8
>
> What is the command to get the sytstem to switch to defaulting to 5.8?

According to /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/pkg-message:

#v+
If you want this version of Perl to be used by default, please type

  use.perl port
#v-

Check out the rest of that file for more information.

> 2. "pkg_add -r db3"  also went ok, but

No idea on this one. ;]

HTH,
-- 
dave [ please don't CC me ]


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