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Old 12-11-2010
Reverting to system Perl - downgrading

Not how I expected my weekend to go.

My redhat server previously had perl 5.8.0 installed on it. Downloading a mysql utility, it asked for that and I blindly installed it. Broke a whole bunch of things. Now I'm hearing that I should revert back to my "system perl" because there may be further incompatibilities.

Any ideas on how I need to handle this?
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Old 12-12-2010
What version of perl have you got now? 5.12?
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Old 12-12-2010
the system perl was 5.8.0 the one I installed last night was 5.12
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Old 12-12-2010
As far as I know, perl 5.12 is fully compatible with perl 5.8. What exactly broke? Missing modules?
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