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    Perl installation failed pfsense 2.1?

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      diablo266
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      I'm attempting to install vmware tools following this guide on pfsense 2.1 amd64: http://www.v-front.de/2013/06/how-to-install-or-update-vmware-tools.html

      The pkg_add -rv perl command is failing with:

      pkg_add: package 'perl-5.12.4_4' or its older version already installed
      pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed

      Perl does not seem to be installed, find / -iname "perl" shows no perl binaries anywhere on the system.

      Thanks!

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        diablo266
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        I was able to solve this by removing /var/db/pkg/perl-5.12.4 and then running the install again if anyone encounters this in the future.

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