Re: Perl is broken: Can't locate overload.pm

[Carl Beckhorn <cbeckhorn@fastmail.fm>]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 12:50:27PM -0800, Max wrote:
> With recent update of my debian-amd64/unstable I've got perl broken.
> Now it reports error like
> 
> debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate overload.pm in @INC 

You can compile perl 5.8.8-2 yourself from source with

  apt-get source perl
  cd perl-5.8.8
  su
  debian/rules binary

or you can just find a copy of overload.pm and put it in 
/usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/overload.pm  until perl-base 5.8.8-2 appears in the 
archives.  Either way fixes the problem.

 - Carl