How to uninstall perl?

Installed 5.8.1, but failed to uninstall 5.6.0 first

[Aranor]

Howdy.

I'd like to install 5.8.1, but it would appear I need to uninstall 5.6.0 first (I'm on a Unix, Mac OS, system, btw). But I'm not sure how to do that. Any help would be appreciated...

[Storyteller]

I have installed 5.8 on several machines without uninstalling 5.6 first. These were Linux boxes. No problems, except that you have to reinstall some CPAN modules. Also, it's possible to have several versions of Perl installed and workable on the same system.

[timster]

What version of Mac OS X are you using?

If you're using Jaguar (10.2) here are complete directions from Apple's site for upgrading to Perl 5.8:

[developer.apple.com...]

[Hissingsid]

Hi Aranor,

1. You don't need to un-install 5.6

2. 5.8.3 works great on Panther

3. Follow timster's tip

The only thing I would say about the instructions he refers to is this. Although it says to download the distribution from the command line you don't have to. I just downloaded it from CPAN, unstuffed it on the desktop and placed the resultant folder into /Library/Perl moved into that directory using Terminal and did the install as instructed. You will need to install developer tools to be able to make the install.

Good luck

Sid