Bug#932210: Fwd: Bug#932210: libimage-exiftool-perl: Exiftool does not start

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

hi,

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:09:50PM +0200, Pierre AUSSAGUEL wrote:
> Le 16/07/2019 à 21:16, Salvatore Bonaccorso a écrit :
> > This is actually not needed that you create a symlink.
> > /usr/bin/exiftool is provided by the package. But you previously
> > invoked in the sheell having probably a preference of /usr/local/bin
> > before /usr/bin. I guess after removing the file you did not invoked
> > hash -r in bash to forget the remembered locations of a command? (see
> > hash under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS in bash(1)).
> 
> I removed the symlink and ran the command hash -r
> It works just as expected
> 
> Thank you for your help.

You are welcome!

> I wonder what lead to this problem, since I stay with a stable debian and
> dont remember having installed exiftool by other means than apt or aptitude
> 
> At a certain moment the location of exiftool binary has changed. In this
> case the package libimage-exiftool-perl or the package manager itself should
> have removed the old binary and invoqued the hash command.

Are you sure you haven't installed it once locally directly from
source, via CPAN or other mechanism?

Debian package managment will never install it into /usr/local/bin so
this soulds like  have been a local installation (or in worst case a
bug in the package violating Debian policy).

Regards,
Salvatore