Re: missing perl manpages
Seems that those perl-5.004 packages are not actually
installed. You can rebuild the dpkg database, yes? Maybe I need to do that
so it realizes they're not there.
Mike
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> The manpages are in perl-5.005-doc, you'll have to remove perl 5.004 if
> you want to get rid of it.
>
> Ron Rademaker
>
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
>
> >
> > Hey guys. I have the following installed:
> >
> > in perl-5.004 <none> (no description available)
> > in perl-5.004-base <none> (no description available)
> > in perl-5.004-doc <none> (no description available)
> > ii perl-5.005 5.005.03-7.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and
> > Report L
> > ii perl-5.005-base 5.005.03-7.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish
> > Lister
> > in perl-5.005-suid <none> (no description available)
> > ii perl-base 5.004.05-1.1 Fake package assuring that one of the
> > -base pa
> >
> > First of all, why's perl 5.004 listed when to my knowledge, I
> > installed 5.005 over it? Can I fix this?
> >
> > Also, when I type "man perl", I get the main perl manpages, but
> > none of the other perl manpages seem to be installed, like perlvar,
> > perlfunc, etc.
> >
> > ??
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > "To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the
> > lessons of science, is better than religious exercises."
> > -- Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
> >
> >
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