RE: [Hamm Install] package dependency problems
On Wednesday, June 10, 1998 3:49 PM, Johnie Ingram
[SMTP:johnie@debian.org] wrote:
>
> "Francois" == Francois Gouget?= <us-ascii> writes:
>
> Francois> 5.004.04-2)'. I tried to find another package
> Francois> that would provide 'perl' but did not find
>
> Perl itself provides perl:
>
> ./hamm/hamm/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.004.04-6.deb
I don't know what happened on my system. I kept doing dselect/install.
Sometimes it would say that some files had to be downloaded sometimes
it would not. Finally it decided to download perl_base and some other
stuff again (like gcc !). I had some FTP_ERRORs before but since doing
dselect/install would not download anything more I assumed that the
package was complete (and it seemed complete).
Anyway with the last download batch it's much better although I still
don't understand how the dependencies work. If I look in
/var/lib/available I don't see anything that provides perl:
> # grep "Provides: perl" available
> Provides: perl-curses
If I look at the package perl it provides 'io' (a rather bad name
imho), not perl. perl-base replaces perl which I guess means it
provides it (once the install worked out ok). Or maybe the package perl
provides perl because it is called perl then.
> Francois> 'libg++' not the one I expected. I could not
> Francois> find anything that ould povide 'libg++27'.
> Sounds like a release-critical bug in ddd-smotif.
I don't know what happened here either. I still don't see anything
providing 'libg++27' but ddd-smotif is installed. Same thing here I
guess that the package libg++27 provides libg++27 because that's its
name. Why didn't it work before then ?
Well anyway... Thanks,
I only have 6 broken packages left, its getting there...
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Francois Gouget
fgouget@mygale.org -- http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/
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