Fresh re-install of 8.2 (trying to be funny with Mesa and an inadequate chipset... don't ask...). KDE 2.2.2.2.2.2.2.... ahem. KDE hates life, right out of the box, we all know that. I stopped using it and went to Gnome and rpmdrake and its friends work much better now, even when invoked from the commandline.

The problem is perl-base and things that use it. Current install:

perl-base-5.601-7mdk

attempting to install

perl-base-5.8.0-13mdk.i586.rpm

When using the GUI it tells me already installed. Huh? From the commandline:

]# rpm -iv --replacepkgs perl-base-5.8.0-13mdk.i586.rpm
Preparing blah
file /usr/bin/perl5 from install of perl-base-5.8blah conflicts with file from package perl-base-5.6blah
file /usr/bin/suidperl from blah blah same thing.

Idon'tgetit. Before i throw caution to the penguin and use force, can anyone think of any reason why I shouldn't?

Don't use the force, luke

...it breaks EVERYTHING. Ok, so i was impatient. DLing and manually reinstalling the older perl (and then rebuilddb just to be safe...) fixed everything. Is there any way to SAFEly upgrade the silly ting without selecting to update EVERYTHING AT ONCE (i really, really don't like trying that, even *with* broadband...).

---i just noticed i typoed the subject of the thread. afaik there is no perl 5.9 yet... i corrected post title, but thread name remains the same. Ah well.

is this what you are after?