Re: Perl configured, but Apt tells me it's not.
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 08:54:53PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> I'm running in console mode, with 'apt-get update' & Mutt
> functional, after mucking up a file transfer between partitions.
>
> 'Tux:~# apt-get install -f -u dist-upgrade --fix-broken'
>
> aborted with
> "Debconf: Perl may be unconfigured. Can't locate strict.pm in @INC ..."
>
> I managed to get Lynx working by moving a missing file into its
> correct place and downloaded and configured Perl 5.8.0 from
> www.cpan.org following the instructions in /home. The only thing I did
> not do was 'make distclean' & 'make realclean' as I had not built Perl
> before.
That's bad: don't attempt to install Debian packages with a
self-compiled Perl in your $PATH. The library paths won't be right.
Can't you forcibly install the normal Debian perl packages?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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