Re: uninstalling perl

2008-07-14 Thread Francisco Valladolid
Umm, normally each unix/linux system has a beauty procedure for do it. In my NetBSD box i have pkg_delete for this task, some linux maybe have the own utilities. Regards. On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anirban Adhikary wrote: >> Dear list >> >> If I

Re: uninstalling perl

2008-07-14 Thread Rob Dixon
Anirban Adhikary wrote: > Dear list > > If I want to remove perl from my linux/unix machine then what is the > procedure for this? Why do you want to remove Perl? It will take only 20MB or less of your disk and it tries hard not to upset anybody. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: uninstalling perl

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Scott
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:02:36 +0530, Anirban Adhikary wrote: > No the version of perl currently installed in my system has been shipped > with the operating system. Then you should ask your operating system vendor how to uninstall perl, or whether this is even feasible. Particularly since they ma

Re: uninstalling perl

2008-07-14 Thread Anirban Adhikary
My os is kernel version is 2.6.9-67.0.15.ELlargesmp OS is GNU/Linux perl version is 5.8.5 On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Amit Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which OS you are using and what's the version of Perl ? > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Anirban Adhikary < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uninstalling perl

2008-07-14 Thread Anirban Adhikary
No the version of perl currently installed in my system has been shipped with the operating system. On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Amit Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it's installed through rpm, you can use rpm -e perlmodulename to install > it. > > Regards, > Amit Saxena > > > On Mon

Re: uninstalling perl

2008-07-14 Thread Jeff Peng
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Anirban Adhikary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list > > If I want to remove perl from my linux/unix machine then what is the > procedure for this? > Why do it? Without Perl many system functions can't run. -- Regards, Jeff. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubsc

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> ""Mumia" == "Mumia W " writes: "Mumia> ExtUtils::Packlist "Mumia> ExtUtils::Install "Mumia> I have no idea if the uninstallation methods described in those documents "Mumia> work, but I post them for your perusal. That's again pointing at the possibly damaging strategy that allows both A

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-15 Thread Nigel Peck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply, I think that I understand you point. Now I am starting to fear cpan installations. Is there a chance that by doing a simple - naive cpan installation of a module I, potentially, can damage another installed module? Hi Yaron, I think what the

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-15 Thread Mumia W.
On 04/15/2007 12:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply, I think that I understand you point. Now I am starting to fear cpan installations. Is there a chance that by doing a simple - naive cpan installation of a module I, potentially, can damage another installed module? Be

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-14 Thread yaron
Message - From: "Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 3:22:44 AM (GMT+0200) Auto-Detected Subject: Re: Uninstalling perl module >>>>> "Xavier" == Xavier Noria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Xavier&

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Xavier" == Xavier Noria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Xavier> Wouldn't the problem with file name collisions/rewrites potentially Xavier> happen if packages were managed as in distros? The problem is that there's no promise that package A and B from the CPAN don't both install file C. So an

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Andreas" == Andreas Puerzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> If the user still wants CPANPLUS to uninstall, it uses the .packlist to Andreas> unlink the files in the distribution (that's what i would do if i were Andreas> to remove a module by hand). Andreas> That is an Uninstall, the

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-14 Thread Andreas Puerzer
(Randal L. Schwartz) schrieb: > If CPANPLUS offers uninstall, it lies about it. The same limitations > apply. CPANPLUS also knows about that and explicitely warns you, that if you installed via a packager, this packager should also be used to uninstall. If the user still wants CPANPLUS to unin

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-14 Thread Xavier Noria
On Apr 13, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: No, because the CPAN.pm shell is an installer, not a packager. It does not maintain a list of which files belong to which installations, and will happily let two installations both write to the same file. This will be problematic whe

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Andreas" == Andreas Puerzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> Maybe the OP could use CPANPLUS, which offers the desired Andreas> uninstall-functionality. If CPANPLUS offers uninstall, it lies about it. The same limitations apply. At least CPAN.pm is honest about not providing it. Yet

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Puerzer
(Randal L. Schwartz) schrieb: >>"yaron" == yaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > yaron> I am using cpan to install modules. > yaron> From time to time I have to uninstall a module. > yaron> Untill now I did not find a tool to do it. > yaron> Is there an official tool for this? > > No,

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-13 Thread Beginner
On 13 Apr 2007 at 6:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am using cpan to install modules. > From time to time I have to uninstall a module. > Untill now I did not find a tool to do it. > Is there an official tool for this? > Try this. It's not a tool but it is the "Offical" way to remov

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "yaron" == yaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: yaron> I am using cpan to install modules. yaron> From time to time I have to uninstall a module. yaron> Untill now I did not find a tool to do it. yaron> Is there an official tool for this? No, because the CPAN.pm shell is an installer, not a

Re: Uninstalling perl module

2007-04-13 Thread Jeff Pang
I 2007/4/13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I am using cpan to install modules. From time to time I have to uninstall a module. Untill now I did not find a tool to do it. Is there an official tool for this? Hello, I don't think there is such an uninstall tool for you. by the way,