Comment 4 for bug 222726

Hello Kajsa,

Did you ever use CPAN to install any perl modules on your system?

I my case _I_think_ that may have been the source of my problem.

I did some locate and find searches and I found I had the sax files in different locations.

I decided (perhaps not correctly) that those in /usr/local/ were from CPAN dependency installations.
I did this:
find /usr/local -name *SAX* -exec rm -fR '{}' \;
then I used Synaptic Package manager to completely remove, the other versions in this order:
libxml-sax-perl
libxml-libxml-perl
libxml-simple-perl
check_gmail
(Those because those were the ones that were giving me problems at the time)
Then I used Synaptic Package manager to reinstall them in the same order.
I have not had the problem since then.

Robert Lopez
Unix Systems Administrator
Office of Information Technology Services
Central New Mexico Community College (CNM)
525 Buena Vista SE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106
(505) 224-3058
-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Kajsa Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:44 PM
To: LOPEZ, ROBERT
Subject: [Bug 222726] Re: Could not install 'libxml-sax-perl'

I've got the same problem, using Ubuntu Hardy Heron ix86.

>From /var/log/apt/term.log:

Setting up libxml-sax-perl (0.16-0.1) ...
Can't locate object method "save_parsers_debian" via package "XML::SAX" at /usr/bin/update-perl-sax-parsers line 90.
dpkg: error processing libxml-sax-perl (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxml-libxml-perl:
 libxml-libxml-perl depends on libxml-sax-perl (>= 0.11); however:
  Package libxml-sax-perl is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libxml-libxml-perl (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxml-libxslt-perl:
 libxml-libxslt-perl depends on libxml-libxml-perl (>= 1.60); however:
  Package libxml-libxml-perl is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libxml-libxslt-perl (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

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Could not install 'libxml-sax-perl'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222726
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Status in “libxml-sax-perl” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: update-manager

During upgrade from Kubuntu 7.10 to Kubuntu 8.04, received warning:

Could not install 'libxml-sax-perl'
The upgrade will continue but the 'libxml-sax-perl' package may be in a not working state. Please consider submitting a bugreport about it.

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255

The last message in the terminal window was:
Setting up libcompizconfig0 (0.7.4-0ubuntu1) ...