findimagedupes fails to run on 32-bit 10.10 Maverick

[Gregory Margo]

Binary package hint: findimagedupes

findimagedupes is a perl script that fails to compile in 32-bit 10.10 Maverick.
(64-bit Maverick and 32-bit Lucid work fine.)

The package installs a compiled object in a directory that perl does not search.

The library objects are stored under
/usr/lib/findimagedupes/lib/i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi/

but "strace" tells me that Maverick's perl only searchs for an "i686" version of the directory:
/usr/lib/findimagedupes/lib/i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi/

Other info:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

$ apt-cache policy findimagedupes
findimagedupes:
  Installed: 2.18-4
  Candidate: 2.18-4
  Version table:
 *** 2.18-4 0
        500 http://tesla/ubuntu/ maverick/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What I expect to happen: I expect the program to compile and run.

What happened instead: The perl compile fails with this error message:

$ findimagedupes
Can't locate findimagedupes/C.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/findimagedupes/lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/findimagedupes line 41.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/findimagedupes line 41.

Even more other info:

$ perl --version
This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi
(with 40 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

$ uname -a
Linux mavericktestftp 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[gwern (gwern0)]

I can confirm that this bug hit me too on i386 Maverick, and following the ln procedure in http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1610258.html fixed the problem. (Removing and installing findimagedupes & its deps did not help.)

[Aymeric (mulx)]

Same in Ubuntu natty (11.04).