<quote who="Ken Foskey">

> My system died and perl libraries have been corrupted.
> 
> /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm has too many errors.
> 
> Debian, how do I force a reinstall on these libraries?

Well, I'm not Debian, but I think I can answer your question for him/her/it.

  dpkg -i <package>.deb

or, if you don't have the package handy (or if it's hiding in your apt cache
and you couldn't be bothered tab completing your way in there):

  apt-get install <package> --reinstall

Pants off.

- Jeff

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