Cannot upgrade perl5.8 - registry error

[Scott Haneda]

On Mar 11, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> When I try to upgrade perl5.8 to version 5.8.9_2, I get the  
> following error:
>
> Error: Checking installed version failed: Registry error: perl5.8  
> @5.8.8_0+darwin_8 not registered as installed.
>
> perl -v says I have version 5.8.6.  Using port -f doesn't help.  A  
> lot of other actions seem to be affected by this.  How can I get  
> around this error?


Maybe your perl -v is telling you the Mac OS X version? Try /opt/local/ 
bin/perl -v instead.  You can also issue `port installed | grep perl`  
and see what version Mac Ports has installed.  I would not at all be  
surprised if you had 5.8.9_2 already, as I do, and made no real  
efforts to instal it.

If you still do need to get it working, you could remove it, and then  
install it again, maybe also first try to activate it, if it is not  
listed as active in the installed list.

Show the output to the command above, and probably someone can point  
you what to do next.
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