Robin Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to install perl-5.6.1 (tar.gz) >do I have to remove perl-5.005 before ?
You can install it in /usr/local/bin so that most programs on your system will keep on using the version of perl they're known to work correctly with, but you can use the newer one for your own projects. >when I do apt-get remove perl-5.005 >I have the message: 66 packages to remove... Yes, perl is quite intimately wired into the Debian system. woody will ship with perl-5.6.1, assuming nothing newer has been released before then. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
