Re: perl 5.8.8 install problem On 5/8/07, Kevin W. Gagel  wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> >Short answer: You have RHEL, put in a support call.
>
> Right. And paid support...

Ah, bad assumption on my part.

>
> >Medium answer: We cannot tell you much without know how you tried to
> >install perl 5.8.8.  RPM from a later version of RHEL?  Compiled from
> >source?
>
> Used rpm -e to erase current install. Used source to install with.

Source installation is tricky.  You need to make sure you have all of
the dependencies perl needs (and not just the bare dependencies, but
all of the ones used to compile it like RedHat does) and that you
update everything that is tied to the old version of perl (e.g.
mod_perl).  This is why package management systems are nice (I have
become very lazy).

>
> >Long answer: If you have a valid backup, restore your system.  If you
>
> It didn't work. That will be the next investigation.

Ouch, life sucks.

>
> >don't then try reinstalling the original RPMs from RHEL and see if you
> >can get things up and running again.  Once you are up and running
>
> I had just retrieved the install cd's to try that with.
>
> >/opt/perl5.8.8/bin/perl instead of /usr/bin/perl.  Or, you can upgrade
> >to RHEL5 which already has perl 5.8.8.
>
> Tried that but a couple of the disks failed the media check. So I'm running
> them again in another system to determine if the cdrom or the disks are
> bad. So far it looks like the disks. So I'll have to redownload a few.

Life really sucks.  At least it sounds like it is a personal or
development machine rather than a production system.

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