[arch-general] Perl Help?

[Jude DaShiell]

What were all packages you reinstalled after deleting /usr/lib/perl5/ 
and /usr/share/perl5/?

On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:20:42
> From: Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> To: Joey Pabalinas <alyptik at protonmail.com>,
>     General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Cc: Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Perl Help?
> 
> On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 12:38 -0400, Joey Pabalinas via arch-general
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general
>> <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> I got bit by Perl this morning after I did an update. I got an
>>> error
>>> about having a handshake error with ListUtil.c, and I don't know
>>> how to
>>> resolve this error.
>>
>> If you have a ~/perl5/lib from using CPAN, files using the wrong Perl
>> version in there may also be causing this error; try:
>>
>> ?mv ~/perl5/lib{,-bak}?
>>
>> to see if this is the cause. If this doesn't work, you can easily
>> revert
>> the change with:
>>
>> ?mv ~/perl5/lib{-bak,}?
>>
>> --
>> Joey Pabalinas
>> <alyptik at protonmail.com>
>
> I was able to get rid of the problem by deleting /usr/lib/perl5 and
> /usr/share/perl5 and reinstalling all packages. I also deleted the Perl
> directory in my home directory, and all things are working nicely. Hope
> this helps someone if they have this problem in the future.
>

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