dpkg segmentation fault

[Christopher Parker <cparker@member.fsf.org>]

Hello all,

I recently compiled perl from source on my Debian system, unknowingly breaking debconf (and
probably other programs).

It seems as though merely moving DebianNet.pm into one of the directories in @INC temporarily
fixed this problem. However, now if I try to install the latest unstable dpkg and/or debconf (or
anything else, for that matter), I get an error like this:

# dpkg --install dpkg_1.10.22_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing dpkg_1.10.22_i386.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-split killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dpkg_1.10.22_i386.deb

Is there any way I can fix this so I can use the apt system again? Without it, my system is
relatively unusable at the moment.

Thanks!

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Christoph von Gröenwald <cvongroenwald@member.fsf.org>
Home page: http://www.cparker15.com/

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