pt-get install --reinstall perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 51 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Too many levels of symbolic links Setting up debianutils (2.25) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/debianutils.postinst: /usr/sbin/update-mime: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Too many levels of symbolic links dpkg: error processing debianutils (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 126 Setting up perl (5.8.8-7) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/perl.postinst: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Too many levels of symbolic links dpkg: error processing perl (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 126 Setting up apache2-mpm-worker (2.2.4-3) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-mpm-worker.postinst: /usr/sbin/update-rc.d: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Too many levels of symbolic links dpkg: error processing apache2-mpm-worker (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 126 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache2: apache2 depends on apache2-mpm-worker (>= 2.2.4-3) | apache2-mpm-prefork (>= 2.2.4-3) | apache2-mpm-event (>= 2.2.4-3); however: Package apache2-mpm-worker is not configured yet. Package apache2-mpm-prefork is not installed. Package apache2-mpm-event is not installed. dpkg: error processing apache2 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: debianutils perl apache2-mpm-worker apache2 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) emiliana:/var/cache/apt/archives#