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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news-relay.ncren.net!lester.appstate.edu!xx.acs.appstate.edu!krb From: krb@xx.acs.appstate.edu (Kinney Baughman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Note! 2 versions of Perl in Release 2.1.6-Release Date: 11 Feb 1997 03:12:30 GMT Organization: Appalachian State University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5doo2u$b64@lester.appstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: xx.acs.appstate.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35491 Instead of being an asker of questions, perhaps I can finally contribute to this newsgroup: I Installed Release 2.1.6-Release about 2 weeks ago, my first FreeBSD system after 3 years on Linux. After experiencing mucho difficulties getting Majordomo to install, I discovered there are two versions of Perl in this release. The one in "/usr/bin" appears to be an older version, version 4.0 perhaps (and incompatible with Majordomo). The one in "/usr/local/bin" is version 5.002 and compatible. I didn't discover it until I issued a "which" command from both the "sh" and "tcsh" and noticed the path differences. If you're having problems getting some of your perl based programs to run, this might be the reason why. It was definitely the reason Majordomo wouldn't run on my system. Cheers! Kinney Baughman