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

[Tom Woody]

RPMs are great if you use only RPMS, as soon as you introduce a "custom rolled" app you are inviting disaster, especially with something as deeply depended upon like perl.  Where ever I can, I use the RPMS from the man (in my case RedHat).  Otherwise, building the RPM from source (which is like pulling teeth with a tweezer IMHO!).  

Sometimes though if you --force --nodeps you can work around the RPM headache as the apps will install ignoring their dependance on perl (which they think doesn't exist), only to find out its there and they are happy little apps once again. 

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:38:24 -0500
Brian <brian-sender-67b5e0 at pongonova.net> wrote:

> 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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