Topic: perl is broken

[pbowers]

when I try to ssh into a server I get the following
perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
It would seem perl is broken

Is it possible to remove the existing package?
rpm -e --allmatches --nodeps perl
 
and perform a yum install perl

Thanks

[Stefano]

hi, welcome here

before you do anything, you should tell us what you did before.. just for curiosity, what's the result of

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rpm -qa 2> /dev/null | grep perl-5 | sort | head -n 1
?

[akay]

rpm -qa 2> /dev/null | grep perl-5 | sort | head -n 1

returns me to a command prompt with no output

[Stefano]

rpm -qa 2> /dev/null | grep perl-5 | sort | head -n 1

returns me to a command prompt with no output

mmmhh..

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[root@srvsrv ~]# rpm -qa 2> /dev/null | grep perl-5 | sort | head -n 1
perl-5.8.5-49.el4
[root@srvsrv ~]#

on a sme 7.4 fully updated

[CharlieBrady]

when I try to ssh into a server I get the following
perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
It would seem perl is broken

So what did you, or someone else, do to break perl? Software doesn't usually just evaporate.

[Stefano]

So what did you, or someone else, do to break perl? Software doesn't usually just evaporate.

it depends, some time could happen with/in windows