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From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Note! 2 versions of Perl in Release 2.1.6-Release
Date: 11 Feb 1997 04:54:16 +0000
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>>>>> "Kinney" == Kinney Baughman <krb@xx.acs.appstate.edu> writes:

 Kinney> Instead of being an asker of questions, perhaps I can finally
 Kinney> contribute to this newsgroup:

 Kinney> I Installed Release 2.1.6-Release about 2 weeks ago, my first
 Kinney> FreeBSD system after 3 years on Linux.

 Kinney> After experiencing mucho difficulties getting Majordomo to
 Kinney> install, I discovered there are two versions of Perl in this
 Kinney> release.  The one in "/usr/bin" appears to be an older
 Kinney> version, version 4.0 perhaps (and incompatible with
 Kinney> Majordomo).  The one in "/usr/local/bin" is version 5.002 and
 Kinney> compatible.

The one in /usr/local/bin isn't part of the basic install - you must
have got that from an additional package. (I also installed 2.1.6,
and I *don't* have a /usr/local/bin/perl, yet.)

-- 
Andrew.