On an Ubuntu box I previously used Perl 5.8.8, compiled from source with no special options. Recently I upgraded to Perl 5.10.0, again compiled from source with no special options. Since that upgrade most of the problems I have encountered have related to modules with XS code. What follows may be similar.

I was prompted by Synaptic Package Manager to upgrade the CUPS printing system today. Two of the three packages upgraded successfully but 'cupsys-client' failed. Here's the output I got when I tried a second time via apt-get: 

[~] 512 $ sudo apt-get install cupsys-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
cupsys-client is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up cupsys (1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06.6) ...
Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux//auto/Unic
+ode/String/String.so' for module Unicode::String: /usr/local/lib/perl
+5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux//auto/Unicode/String/String.so: undefine
+d symbol: PL_dowarn at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/DynaLoader.pm line 225.
 at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 25
Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 25.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 25.
dpkg: error processing cupsys (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cupsys
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Result: I currently am unable to print any documents.

Suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Jim Keenan

In reply to Ubuntu cups package upgrade problem after upgrading to Perl 5.10 by jkeenan1

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