I have an odd problem in teh configuration of my ubuntu system that seems to stem from a perl configuration issue. It is kind of basic but I don't find any clues by google and so on.

When I try to run tools like debconf, I get :

Can't locate Debconf/Db.pm in @INC ... and the listing of @INC, which is all dirs under /usr/local/lib/perl5

By searching, I see that this module is there - it's under /usr/share/perl5

Now I do recall that a long while back, I built perl from scratch. I guess that I screwed some of the configuration up? What do I do to reinstall the missing stuff? Do I have to recompile? I've tried "cpan Debconf/Db" but it doesn't actually seem to be a CPAN module. Can I somehow just add /usr/share/perl5 ... into @INC? Where do I even find documentation for this kind of issue?

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