Perl 5.8.0
Hi there,
I have recently upgrade to perl 5.8.0 and now have run into all sort so of complications..for eg, apt-get no longer works (error is below).. any ideas on how to resolve this. It appears as though apt-get is still referencing the old perl module (debconf/log.pm).
milhouse:/local/perl/perl-5.8.0# apt-get install cricket
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cricket
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 158 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/382kB of archives. After unpacking 1442kB will be used.
debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debconf/Log.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at (eval 1) line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4.
) -- aborting
(Reading database ... 49435 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking cricket (from .../cricket_1.0.3+1.0.4pre1-3_all.deb) ...
Can't locate Debconf/Db.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 4.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cricket_1.0.3+1.0.4pre1-3_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/cricket_1.0.3+1.0.4pre1-3_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
milhouse:/local/perl/perl-5.8.0#
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