On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 09:30 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Thanks - I figured it out. I'm not sure what but there was some perl > libs under /usr/local and I deleted those and the problem went away. > That usually implies that you installed Perl some libraries direct from some third party source which doesn't use RPM. There are very few standard RPM packages that unpack into the /usr/local tree - the only Fedora RPM packages I've installed that do that are amanda, firefox, SynCE, some Palm Pilot stuff, and thunderbird. Adobe's flash plugin also puts stuff in /usr/local. Everything else in that tree, apart from Kermit and microEmacs which I downloaded and compiled locally, is stuff I wrote myself.
I have never found anything in that tree, apart from empty directories, after a clean RedHat/Fedora install and upgrade. I've been using RedHat distros from RH 6.2, switching to Fedora Core 1 as soon as it appeared. In consequence, one of my first (scripted) actions after an install is: rm -rf /usr/local; ln -s /home/local /usr/local Martin
