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My Debian perl vs. stable.tar.gz fiasco continues.  Prior to today, I
could still use apt-get to install packages, but it now appears that all
attempted installations are failing.

I need to back out of this pretty quick.  I'm thinking the fastest way to
correct the problem would be to:

1) uninstall the manual perl (5.6.1) installation
2) $ dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | grep perl \
| cut -s -f1 > perl-file
3) force a purge on all perl-related .debs appearing in perl-file
4) $ dpkg --set-selections < perl-file
5) $ apt-get update
6) $ apt-get dist-upgrade

Does anyone see any problems with this?  I really need to get this thing
corrected pdq.  Any advice and/or assistance is most welcome.
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