Comments on: Paralysed Perl Package Problem

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Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:19:29 +0000

[...] SAG, so I hope it’s not a(nother) completely silly question. As I was reminded by the Paralysed Perl Package Problem, sometimes other system administrators can really mess you up by changing things without [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:09:13 +0000

“Where the blue blazes did an installation in /usr/local come from?”

Probably “cpan”

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:46:57 +0000

Right. So should I remove it from http://www.uk.debian.org/mirrors/ then?

By: frank

frank — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:05:10 +0000

Problem solved but: The mirror status page you used is out of date. Try http://www.de.debian.org/dmc/today instead.

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:26:08 +0000

Arrrrrrrrrrgh! Where the blue blazes did an installation in /usr/local come from? Time to check the sysadmin logs and have words with the other sysadmins. I suspect it’s one of the server owner’s former workers, but…

Many thanks! Beer, chocolate or something else and where do you want it sent?

By: Raphael Hertzog

Raphael Hertzog — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:17:03 +0000

Try “which perl” and remove the perl installation in /usr/local/. perl is provided by perl-base so if you reinstalled it, you have the perl of Debian… unless you have a local installation that takes precedence over the official perl.