Any way to resolve x86_64 Perl issue without yum remove perl.i386?

[jert]

Greetings, all.

I was wondering if there was any way to address the Perl conflict issue without using 'yum remove perl.i386'.

When I attempt to remove perl, yum wants to also remove pretty much everything else that's installed on my computer. Being quite new to linux, I'm not very familiar with software installation, but was wondering if there was something with the -force option that would allow me to remove perl.i386 and reinstall the x86-64 version without having to reinstall the rest of my packages afterwards ...

Will this work? Is there another way around the issue? Or am I just being too paranoid about losing my settings in the rest of my packages?

I'm assuming that a install of the x86_64 version will address the rest of my perl-related issues. Of course, in the case that I've got a different issue, here's the symptoms:

Every time I open a new terminal window or 'su', I get

perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Some other info:

$ ldd /usr/bin/perl
libperl.so => not found
libnsl.so.1 => /lib64/libnsl.so.1 (0x0000003e7ee00000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x000000303de00000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/tls/libm.so.6 (0x000000303dc00000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x0000003e7ec00000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x0000003041800000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x000000303e600000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 (0x000000303d900000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000000303d700000)

$ locate libperl.so
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so

[jert]

My solution (paranoid or not, went through with it anyway):

Remove the existing package:
rpm -e --allmatches --nodeps perl

Install the x86_64 release:
yum install perl.x86_64

Update:
yum update

We'll see in the next couple of days if nodeps removal caused any problems ... but for now, it seems to be working.

[Ridgerunner]

Jert

I had no problems when I removed the i386 version of perl. I did this on FC3. I have installed FC4 since then and am assuming that the i386 version is not in it at all.

Cheers
Ken

[jert]

Removing it with rpm -e --allmatches --nodeps perl worked for me.

The issue I was trying to avoid was that removing it with yum was going to result in yum removing all the programs that depended on it ... about 150 in all, including X11.

Rather than reinstall the entire machine, I was looking for a way to deal strictly with the perl install.

Thanks for the response, though.