Re: Broken Perl module
On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 03:05, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:42:13PM +0200, Tim van den Elsen wrote:
> > A few days ago i wanted to update the newest packages. I always use
> > 'dselect'. When dselect tried to update and install a certain package
> > (it had something do to with perl, can't remember exact name) it gave an
> > error. It was late that day so i went to bed :D
> [...]
> > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> > 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
> > Need to get 0B/2800kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> > debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (syntax error at
> > /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/FileHandle.pm line 10, near "@ISA ="
>
> Could you post the output of 'dpkg -l perl\*'? If any of them are in bad
> states (normally indicated by one of the first two letters of a line
> being in uppercase) then configuring it with 'dpkg --configure' or
> reinstalling it may help.
>
> Also, make sure you don't have a strange version of perl somewhere else
> on the $PATH while running dselect.
>
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> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
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Since i am not such an expert in Debian.. here is the output of
'dpkg -l perl\*':
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===================-===================-======================================================
ii perl 5.6.1-7 Larry Wall's Practical
Extraction and Report Language.
pn perl-5.004 <none> (no description available)
pn perl-5.004-base <none> (no description available)
pn perl-5.004-debug <none> (no description available)
pn perl-5.004-doc <none> (no description available)
pn perl-5.004-suid <none> (no description available)
ii perl-5.005 6.3 Transitional package.
ii perl-5.005-base 6.3 Transitional package.
pn perl-5.005-debug <none> (no description available)
ii perl-5.005-doc 6.3 Transitional package.
ii perl-5.005-suid 6.3 Transitional package.
pn perl-5.005-thread <none> (no description available)
pn perl-5.6 <none> (no description available)
ii perl-5.6-base 6.3 Transitional package.
pn perl-5.6-debug <none> (no description available)
pn perl-5.6-doc <none> (no description available)
pn perl-5.6-suid <none> (no description available)
ii perl-base 5.6.1-7 The Pathologically Eclectic
Rubbish Lister.
pn perl-byacc <none> (no description available)
un perl-curses <none> (no description available)
pn perl-debug <none> (no description available)
ii perl-doc 5.6.1-7 Perl documentation.
ii perl-modules 5.6.1-7 Core Perl modules.
ii perl-suid 5.6.1-7 Runs setuid Perl scripts.
pn perl-tk <none> (no description available)
pn perl2html <none> (no description available)
un perl5 <none> (no description available)
un perl5-base <none> (no description available)
un perl5-thread <none> (no description available)
un perlapi-5.005 <none> (no description available)
un perlapi-5.6.0 <none> (no description available)
un perlapi-5.6.1 <none> (no description available)
pn perlmagick <none> (no description available)
pn perlmenu <none> (no description available)
pn perlsgml <none> (no description available)
pn perltidy <none> (no description available)
server:~#
I see two different versions.. I don't know if that is the problem? If
it is how can i safely uninstall the older version?
Thanks in advance,
Tim
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