On 17/09/10 11:21, franc wrote:
In that case, uninstalling Spamassassin from Apt (and then doing an
apt-get --autoremove to clear out Perl libs installed through apt/dpkg)
and re-installing with CPAN should be fine, and you'll be able to keep
it up to date.
I use aptitude, is this the same then? Will this uninstall all Perl? Because
i need this for other things.
Aptitude does it by default. It won't uninstall Perl, but it will remove
Perl libraries that were brought in as dependencies of SA through
apt[itude]. As those libraries would also be installed by CPAN as
dependencies (possibly newer versions), you want them out of the way so
there is no conflict/confusion between the versions. It's the same
reason that it is a bad idea to install one way then upgrade another.
