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andyb

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Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Updating, perl and pacman

I've been using Arch for the last couple of months, most recently with KDEMod.  No problems until now- fast and stable- and maybe the answer to this is to ignore it (my system's running fine), but I thought I'd ask!

Recently, whenever I run pacman -Syu to update the system, I get "error: cannot resolve "perl>=5.10.0", a dependency of "perl-xml-dom"
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: perl-xml-dom: requires perl>=5.10.0"

The installed version of perl is perl 5.8.8-9 and, despite the Arch home page telling me that perl 5.10.0 has been moved to core, I can't find it there, or upgrade to it.  Should I first remove perl 5.8.8-9 and then reinstall (although as I say perl 5.10.0 doesn't appear to be in core, or available to me to update)?  I have tried to install the package (pacman -U http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/perl-5.10.0.tar.gz), but I get error messages such as "cannot open package file" or "error: '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/perl-5.10.0.tar.gz': unexpected error".

Anyone able to help me understand what's happening?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by andyb (2008-04-07 06:48:44)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Updating, perl and pacman

Welcome to the forums.

Change your mirror. If it hasn't upgraded perl yet, then there's something wrong there.

As far as your attempt with CPAN, pacman -U doesn't know what to do with source binaries. That will only work on Arch compatible packages.

Last edited by skottish (2008-04-06 18:56:32)

andyb

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Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Updating, perl and pacman

Thanks for your help, skottish- all's well now!