Timothy Bedding wrote: > My question is: Which of these should I remove? How can I tell > which is not part of a debian package? Is there a command that > I should use?
dpkg -S file > As to where it came from, well, I am not sure. I have just > been adding and removing debian packages from www.debian.org > and so I assume that both files are from packages. I think you'll find that the one in /usr/lib is not. It'd be interesting to see the date that file was created. (For the debian-perl readers: This is a problem that is cropping up with several people, they all seem to have a /usr/lib/perl5/base.pm that does not beling to any package, and dates from perl 5.004 or so (lacks a VERSION, so it's hard to tell). It breaks debconf badly. Here we see the problem with letting local installs shodow core. :-/) I don't know if it's coming from CPAN, or local mistakes, or a badly broken old perl package that doesn't remove it on upgrade.) -- see shy jo
