libshell-perl : Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed

[Colin Law]

On 27 November 2013 20:37, W. Scott Lockwood III <scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 20:26 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> I don't know what the effect of adding a package name on the end might
>> be.
>
> The effect is, it tries only to install that specific package and fix
> any errors.

That makes sense, thanks.

@oxy, I suspect there is something wrong with the perl installation,
you say it is installed but when you install libshell-perl it says it
is not.  How did you install perl and what do you see if you run
apt-cache policy perl

Colin