Re: dist-upgrade and perl
Now that you mention it, I did the same thing and got the same
result. However, my upgrade worked.
apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade perl from 5.004 to 5.005
for the same reason it won't upgrade emacs19 to emacs20. They
are different packages. The package is perl-5.005_5.005.03 and
not perl_5.005.03, and so the package `name' is perl-5.005 and
not simply `perl'.
I don't know if it was supposed to replace perl-5.004
automatically.
Peter
"Stephen R. Gore" wrote:
> I've finally succeeded in getting a working potato box by installing
> slink base system (using cdrom), but it took 3 tries. I've done this
> before (the machine I'm using to write this was installed this way),
> but never had this much trouble.
>
> What I discovered was that changing sources.list to point to potato
> and doing 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade
> perl from 5.004 to 5.005. This causes several of the installation and
> post-installation scripts to fail, the first being libncurses4. (Later
> failures /may/ have been due to libncurses4 not being configured. I'm
> not sure.)
>
> My fix was to use dselect to select perl 5.005 for installation. This
> worked.
>
> Has anyone had a similar experience? Is this a bug? If it is a bug,
> against what?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Steve
>
> Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
> useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
> Reboots are for kernel and hardware upgrades.
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