[NTLUG:Discuss] How do I uninstall perl on SuSE 8?

[Brian]

Dennis--

Welcome to RPM hell!

My suggestion:  Build Perl from source, but don't install.  Instead, make a binary
RPM (check out the RPM HowTo for details), and install from that.  This will update
the RPM db and keep everything in sync

Or, swear off RPMs forever.  I decided on that route after spending more time
fighting with RPM than getting stuff installed.

  --Brian

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 08:46:56AM -0500, Dennis Daupert wrote:
> 
> I've been wrestling with mod_perl/apache installation on SuSE 8.0 for
> almost two weeks. (I'll go to the mod_perl list on that)
> 
> I read a tip by Lincoln Stein suggesting waxing a linux preinstalled perl,
> and installing from source. Since I usually install my own perl anyways,
> I decided to go for it on my pretty freshly updated SuSE 8.
> 
> Problem is, when I deinstall SuSE's perl, he (rpm, I believe) tells me
> there are hundreds of  packages depending on perl. I went ahead
> anyhow, deinstalled that perl (from /usr/bin/perl), installed from tar.gz
> into /usr/local/bin/perl (with symlink to /usr/bin/perl), and perl is just
> fine.
> 
> But the rpm guy doesn't know about my new perl, and when I later installed
> something from the SuSE CD, he said, "Oh my god, you need perl!" and
> went ahead and installed perl from the CD binary into /usr/bin/perl.
> 
> QUESTION: How do I remove the SuSE binary perl and tell rpm about *my*
> perl in /usr/local/bin/perl so he'll be satisfied? I don't do much with
> rpm,
> other than the distro installs.
> 
> /dennis
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