[NTLUG:Discuss] How do I uninstall perl on SuSE 8?

[Dennis Daupert]

I've been wrestling with mod_perl/apache installation on SuSE 8.0 for
almost two weeks. (I'll go to the mod_perl list on that)

I read a tip by Lincoln Stein suggesting waxing a linux preinstalled perl,
and installing from source. Since I usually install my own perl anyways,
I decided to go for it on my pretty freshly updated SuSE 8.

Problem is, when I deinstall SuSE's perl, he (rpm, I believe) tells me
there are hundreds of  packages depending on perl. I went ahead
anyhow, deinstalled that perl (from /usr/bin/perl), installed from tar.gz
into /usr/local/bin/perl (with symlink to /usr/bin/perl), and perl is just
fine.

But the rpm guy doesn't know about my new perl, and when I later installed
something from the SuSE CD, he said, "Oh my god, you need perl!" and
went ahead and installed perl from the CD binary into /usr/bin/perl.

QUESTION: How do I remove the SuSE binary perl and tell rpm about *my*
perl in /usr/local/bin/perl so he'll be satisfied? I don't do much with
rpm,
other than the distro installs.

/dennis

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