[ctw] Re: Tiger and Activestate
- From: Tom Shaw <tshaw@xxxxxxxx>
- To: ctw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 11:57:23 -0400
At 11:21 AM -0400 5/9/09, Robert Wolff wrote:
Ok I am really missing the boat on this, I installed Activestate
perl version 5.10 but the perl -v still says 5.86.
I can see the install is at /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10, I find a lot
of "Make sure to add /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/bin to your path."
around but I am just not getting this.
Any suggestions, in small words.
MAC OS X Server 10.4.11
you should be able to get version by
/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/perl -v
But of course that means you have to type in the complete path every
time you want run that perl. You can make this easier by changing
your bash profile.
Simplest way is to change your bash profile is to put
/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10 as the first directory to be searched but
that will break my assp startup plist and force you to edit it to
make it work along with spamdb cron job script.
The alternative is to symlink it to look like the default installed
perl. The following command
ls -al /usr/bin/perl*
should show you that you have something like /usr/bin/perl and an
exact copy at /usr/bin/perl_the_default_perl_version. If you do not
have a copy of your default make one with the mv command.
Now you replace the default with a symlink to your activestate by:
sudo ln -s /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/perl /usr/bin/perl
Now, typing /usr/bin/perl should start activestate and perl -v will
give you the activestate version
Tom
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