libshell-perl : Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed

[Nils Kassube]

Colin Law wrote:
> @oxy, I suspect there is something wrong with the perl installation,
> you say it is installed but when you install libshell-perl it says it
> is not.  How did you install perl and what do you see if you run
> apt-cache policy perl

I think there is something wrong with the libshell-perl package. I tried 
to install it on my 12.04 machine and the error message was the same. 
Then I downloaded the package directly and tried to install it with dpkg 
and the result is this;

~/ > LC_ALL=C sudo dpkg -i libshell-perl_0.72-1_all.deb
Selecting previously unselected package libshell-perl.
(Reading database ... 408091 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libshell-perl (from libshell-perl_0.72-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libshell-perl:
 perl-modules (5.14.2-6ubuntu2.3) breaks libshell-perl (<< 0.72.01) and 
is installed.
  Version of libshell-perl to be configured is 0.72-1.
dpkg: error processing libshell-perl (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libshell-perl

BTW: The perl version is what comes installed by default or as a 
dependency of some other package. At least perl is installed on all the 
machines which are running here right now and I didn't install it 
intentionally.


Nils