On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:22:19PM +0000, Victor wrote: > perl -MCPAN -eshell > > *The bottom line* > So, now I have that strange, confusing mixture of a perl 5.005 coming > from a deb package and a perl 5.6.1 compiled from tarballs in CPAN > under the same /usr/bin and /usr/lib. Obviously the perl command was > overwritten during the compilation by version 5.6.1. > > *Your suggestion for a way out*
Reinstall all the perl debs on your system. If you use the --reinstall option to apt-get, it is almost easy, even. > Minimal: > Because I need various DBDs which are not included in the deb files, > is there away to fix perl as it is now in my PC? Reinstall all perl packages that dpkg thinks are still on your system. > Tiresome: > > I luckily did a complete backup of my system tarring all the main dirs > on another linux box via NFS. Therefore I could have a chance to > recover my initial, working greatly, stable configuration. But.... With debian, you only need a backup of /etc and of /var/lib/dpkg/status. The rest can be installed completely. There are extra copies of the status file in /var/backups, too (useful when you have hosed only the status file and do not want to reconstruct it manually). > what should I do to install a new DBI and many DBM and whatever else > stuff from CPAN which are not included in the deb packages? Install dh-perl-make && rtfm && build your own libperl-dbd-foo.deb. dpkg -p dh-make-perl Package: dh-make-perl Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 92 Maintainer: Paolo Molaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 0.8 Depends: debhelper (>= 3.0.0), libpod-parser-perl, perl, make, dpkg-dev, fakeroot Filename: pool/main/d/dh-make-perl/dh-make-perl_0.8_all.deb Size: 12988 MD5sum: 6cdf821df978d5da3f0eed7ad3096cac Description: Create debian packages from perl modules dh-make-perl will create the files required to build a debian source package out of a perl package. This works for most simple packages and is also useful for getting started with packaging perl modules. Given a perl package name, it can also automatically download it from CPAN. Cheers, Joost
