perl-Scalar-Util is not a rpm fedora package but what about perl-Scalar-List-Utils which provides perl(Scalar::Util) ?
=========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 | | Room# D114A =========================================================================== > Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2022 at 2:28 PM > From: "Sam Varshavchik" <mr...@courier-mta.com> > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Perl is now failing for me > > Fulko Hew writes: > > > or > > > > > > $ cpan > > Attempt to reload Scalar/Util.pm aborted. > > Looks like you have installed additional Perl modules, bypassing Fedora's > packaged perl RPMs. This is likely resulted in unintentional corruption or > incompatibility with your base Fedora perl installation, in some unknown > manner that nobody, I'm afraid, can diagnose for you. > > > Can anyone suggest where to start? > > For example... Why is it trying to reload Scalar::Util? > > Who knows. Attempting to elicit logic from an illogical state of affairs is > unlikely to succeed. > > At this point, it might be faster for you to simply wipe everything and > reinstall Fedora. An unintentional power loss on my laptop right after an > upgrade resulted in an unbootable brick, by default, with some weird > complaint. Manually selecting an older kernel from grub completed the boot. > > Rather than trying to tinker and figure out WTF, I just wiped and > reinstalled. Took only two hours to do. It might be faster for you to do the > same. > > Afterwards, try not to use cpan in combination with the system-installed > perl. First of all, there is a very likely possibility that whatever module > you needed, there's already a Fedora RPM for it. Install it, and call it a > day. > > If you do need a very custom Perl ecosystem, with CPAN and all those bells > and whistles: you should build your own Perl core from scratch. Install it > somewhere else, in /usr/local maybe. Use CPAN with it, to your heart's > content, without touching the system perl. > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
