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A while back, there was a large perl upgrade which required rebuilding of manually-installed Perl modules. At the time, I did not take much of any action as I did not use any applications which depended on CPAN-installed modules -- all I did was to uninstall some older Perl apps which I no longer used.
Unfortunately, that has recently changed.
Though I know exactly which modules I need to have on my system when all is said and done, I have no idea how to uninstall all of the old ones which came from the CPAN shell. Does anyone know how to do so?
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Well, modules are just files so, if you're lucky, the easy way is to find the directory where the modules were installed and delete them.
If you're unlucky, you've intermingled CPAN modules with those installed by Arch. If that's the case, you might be able to delete each module by hand but you need to be careful not to wipe out Arch's modules. This is slow and hazardous work so please be careful.
My guess would be that the files are installed in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl, because mine's empty and that's what it's for. The exact location is controlled by whatever you used to install the modules. (cpan probably, but there are others.)
If you're really lucky, you can get away with
cd /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
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Well, modules are just files so, if you're lucky, the easy way is to find the directory where the modules were installed and delete them.
If you're unlucky, you've intermingled CPAN modules with those installed by Arch. If that's the case, you might be able to delete each module by hand but you need to be careful not to wipe out Arch's modules. This is slow and hazardous work so please be careful.
My guess would be that the files are installed in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl, because mine's empty and that's what it's for. The exact location is controlled by whatever you used to install the modules. (cpan probably, but there are others.)
If you're really lucky, you can get away with
cd /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl rm -rf .
Yes, I do have such bad luck. I have used the CPAN.pm shell, the AUR, and pacman to install Perl modules. I shall do more research regarding exactly what goes where during a CPAN.pm-based install. I am not at my own computer so I cannot do all of this now. I will get back to you on this tomorrow. Thank you for your response.
Last edited by Bushman (2011-07-31 13:10:00)
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