Probable bug in libwww-perl

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Sat Nov 29 15:12:05 UTC 2008


On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:30:51 -0800, mas at mylug.org wrote:

> > So LWP::UserAgent is found but URI.pm is not. URI.pm is not in
> > libwww-perl but in liburi-perl, which should be installed as a
> > dependency of libwww-perl.
> > Something's weird in your installation :)
> Well, that did it. Reinstalled liburi-perl. Checkgmail is working now.

Great!
 
> What still surprises me is the following :
> mas at dadhici:~$ locate URI.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/XML/SAX/PurePerl/Reader/URI.pm

locate uses its own database that is rebuilt by a daily cronjob.
I.e. after installing a new package the files won't show up there
(unless you run the locate database update srcript yourself).

> Anyway, thanks for the help.

You're welcome!

Cheers,
gregor
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