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Vignesh Senthil
Vignesh Senthil

Reputation: 1

Remove perl package completely

I am trying to uninstall the old perl package and install a new package. I used rpm -e to uninstall the old package. I could still see the below files after uninstalling. How can i completely remove the perl package from my server. It runs on OEL 6.10. And when I do "perl -v" , I could see 5.30 version as output, even after uninstalling perl.

/opt/CWx/perl
/opt/CWx/modules/installed/Module-Build-0.4005/inc/Perl
/opt/CWx/modules/installed/Perl-OSType-1.003/blib/lib/Perl
/opt/CWx/modules/installed/Perl-OSType-1.003/blib/lib/auto/Perl
/opt/CWx/modules/installed/Perl-OSType-1.003/blib/arch/auto/Perl
/opt/CWx/modules/installed/Perl-OSType-1.003/lib/Perl
/opt/CWx/modules/Module-Build-0.4208/inc/Perl
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-754.11.1.el6.x86_64/tools/perf/scripts/perl
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-754.6.3.el6.x86_64/tools/perf/scripts/perl
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64/tools/perf/scripts/perl
/usr/local/share/perl5_old/Perl
/usr/local/bin/perl

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1965

Answers (1)

Dave Cross
Dave Cross

Reputation: 69244

If you want to know which package installed a file you can use the command:

rpm -q --whatprovides [filename]

For example, for the first file in your list:

rpm -q --whatprovides /opt/CWx/perl

None of the files you list are in locations which are used by the standard Perl RPM on a RedHat-based system. You will, I expect, find that they are either installed by a completely different package or not installed by a package at all.

And that will also explain why you can still access Perl. Those files include other versions of the Perl compiler and I bet that whoever installed them also changed the PATH so that you have access to at least one of them.

If you want to know which Perl installation is responding to your commands, just run this:

which perl

Upvotes: 1

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