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in thread broke my perl? :(

If apt-get depends on perl, maybe the lower level program dpkg doesn't.

Downloading the .deb package manually then installing stuff with dpkg -i $deb_file has helped me to repair some Debian systems where apt wouldn't work anymore.

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