upgrading and uninstalling software
 

I have a few simple questions I hope that someone can answer.

1. How would I go about upgrading a program like perl. I kind of messed up by trying to upgrade Perl 5.8.0 to 5.8.2. I thought doing the 'configure,make,make install' would upgrade my older version, but instead, it installed a second version.

2. Is there a way to uninstall software from the commandline? I'd like something that I could reverse the 'make install' process. Is that what 'make clean' is for?

I'm sorry, I know these are newbie questions... :(

Mike

Most of the time you will need a package manager to upgrade software. When compiling you usually just install a new version to a different directory.

To uninstall a source package usually:
make uninstall

You might want to check out CheckInstall to manage source code installations/uninstallation

Hum...Maybe I should ask how I can get rid of the old version? My problem is that I'm trying to use Net::SNMP but everytime I run that script that needs it says that it's not installed. I get this output:

[root@LINUX1 libexec]# ./check_netapp.pl -H filer
> Can't locate Net/SNMP.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0) at
> ./check_netapp.pl line 43.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./check_netapp.pl line 43.



I know that it is installed though because when i do this:

> cpan> install Net::SNMP
> Net::SNMP is up to date.

How to I uninstall the orginal version, upgrade it or point cpan to the newly installed version? Thanks again!

Mike

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