perl 5.6 problems
Here is the lasest output of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It seems
to be complaining about a Perl script, and will not go through with the
upgrade. This seems serious; how can I fix this? I have tried running
apt-get --reinstall on perl, perl-base and dpkg with no luck.
--Peter
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
autoconf2.13 autotools-dev groff-base html2text libast1 libcupsys2
libdate-manip-perl libedb1 libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgmp3 libimlib2
libparse-yapp-perl librep9 libsigc++-dev libsigc++0 libxml-enno-perl sawfish
xmms
The following packages have been kept back
libgnomeprint-data
198 packages upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/120MB of archives. After unpacking 33.5MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}"
Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3.
...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm line 18.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Iterator.pm line 5.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 8.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4.
) -- aborting
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true
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