in reply to Installing perl using dpkg

sudo apt-get --reinstall install perl

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Re^2: Installing perl using dpkg
by megnetz (Novice) on Jul 05, 2011 at 09:29 UTC
    Thanks! It yeilds an error report ending like this:
    /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic_2.6.32-24.43_amd +64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
        I see. This is the start (free translation from swedish):
        /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: not found (Reading database ... 178617 files and folders installed.) Prepares to replace linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic 2.6.32-24.41 (with .../linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic_2.6.32-24.43_amd64.deb) ... dpkg (subprocess): couldn't run old pre-removal-skript: No such file or directory