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[David Cantrell]

Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> If you're running Solaris 8, *dont* get rid of the Perl thats included
> with the system - stuff depends on it and will break if you remove it.
> 
> You can upgrade to a later version by putting it in your PATH before the
> system perl, but dont remove the system perl.

The same applies to Debian Linux.  Some of the package management utilities
use perl.  Again, you can put your own version of perl earlier in the
PATH and everything will be groovy.

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