Re: messed up stable install
John,
I have not and thank you. I've been working this issue as time permits
and I am coming to the conclusion that I should probably do a clean
re-install of stable. I set this server up 2 1/2 years ago and did not
keep good records. I am just not sure what state the installation is in.
On 15 May 2003 at 7:12, John Cuson wrote:
>
> john-
>
> you ever get a response to this? perl uses an internal
> array to represent the directories in its search path, and
> you can add to it by setting the PERL5LIB environment
> variable in the .bashrc for root (or whatever userid under
> which you want to execute perl, for that matter). track down
> the location of Debian.pm, then add
>
> export PERL5LIB='/whatever/path'
>
> to the .bashrc for root. (assuming, of course, that you are
> running the bash shell). that should do the trick. log in
> as root and finish off the installation with apt-get -f
> install.
>
>
> john cuson
> (jcuson@isdh.state.in.us, jcuson@alumni.indiana.edu)
>
> The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any
> chance ever observes.
>
> Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>
> john cuson
> (jcuson@isdh.state.in.us, jcuson@alumni.indiana.edu)
>
> The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any
> chance ever observes.
>
> Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>
> >>> John Basso <john.p.basso@lmco.com> 05/13/03 11:59AM >>>
> Thanks for the response and sorry about the lack of
> pertinent information.
>
> I don't have the error messages with me but they were
> related to Perl not being able to find certain modules in
> @INC. It appears that I have
>
> some abortion of different Perl versions installed or
> partially installed.
>
> I will collect the error messages this evening and post
> them.
>
> On 13 May 2003 at 10:09, Gary Hennigan wrote:
>
> > "John Basso" <john.p.basso@lmco.com> writes:
> > > I maintain a web server at home which has been running
> > > Debian stable. In a momentary lapse of reason I
> > > attempted to upgrade this system to testing. This
> > > upgrade did not complete successfully. Specifically my
> > > Perl installation seems to be inoperable.
> > >
> > > I am now trying to reverse this by downgrading back to
> > > stable. I've compiled a list of installed packages and
> > > the versions contained in stable. I plan to manually
> > > install the stable versions. The problem I am having is
> > > that because the Perl installation is not working I
> > > cannot seem to make any progress.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a suggestion short of a complete
> > > re-install?
> >
> > It would probably be more helpful if you fed us some of
> > the error messages you're getting.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
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> John Basso
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