perl programs won't run

[Llhorian]

well today in my daily apt-get upgrade perl 5.6 was installed. Then a few program's wouldn't run anymore. So, as the newbie I am, I thought, **** it's all perl 5.6's fault, let's 'apt-get remove' it. So I did, assuming that everything would work as it had before installing perl 5.6
But alas no, what I did was probably extremely dumb because now none of the perl-based programs like pronto and stuff will work anymore.
I tried reinstalling perl but dpkg-preconfigure (the thing that installs and preconfigures the newly fetched packages) is also perl based so that won't work either... *sobs*
What to do, what to do?

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--Llhorian
'Linux, it's a little bit different.'

[Letalis]

Get a tarball of perl?

[Llhorian]

Right, I'd rather use debian packages because I like the overview better but I did it anyway.
But now when I use apt-get to install a package I get:

debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debconf/ConfigDb.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at (eval 1) line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4.
) -- abortin

What is that?


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--Llhorian
'Linux, it's a little bit different.'

[Letalis]

My idea was that apt relay on perl to work and because of that you would need to use the tarball to get apt to work.. but im not a debian user so i dont know for sure.