Hello, On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Rob Weir wrote:
> After doing my regular apt-get update;apt-get -fuy dist-upgrade against I think it is wiser to run: apt-get update && apt-get -fuy dist-upgrade Upgrading will only be done when updating was succesfull > testing, I've managed to completely munge up my perl installation. When apt > gets to updating Debconf, I get the following error: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine > return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}" > Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3. > ...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm line 18. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Iterator.pm > line 5. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm > line 7. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line > 5. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 8. > Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 4. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4. > ) -- aborting > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The two stupid things that I've done lately to my system was running CPAN and > apt-getlocalepurge. CPAN tried to update a bunch of stuff (for some reason > it that overwriting the perl modules in /usr/ was a good idea, rather than > writing to /usr/local/ like the perl packages normally do), while > apt-localepurge, well, purged a bunch of locale files which means that many > packages refuse to install now. I'm involved in a rather large perl project, > so I need to fix this, soon. Is it time to grab my potato CD's and reinstall > everything, or can this be fixed reasonably easily? > You can try to deinstall and reinstall perl. To deinstall: dpkg --purge perl This will deinstall perl including configuration. Then you can reinstall perl with apt-get. Greetz, Sebastiaan
