RE: DESTROY

[Debian Ghost <debian@ghost.ntelos.net>]

Hey Steve,
Thanks for the reply.
I did what you suggested and didn't find anything I am missing.
Can you look at this and tell me if I am missing what I am missing ? :)

p.s- is the second package acronym a joke ? (pathologically eclectic...)

root@ghost:/home/ghost> apt-cache search perl | grep 5.6
perl-5.6 - Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language.
perl-5.6-base - The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
root@ghost:/home/ghost> apt-get install perl-5.6
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, perl-5.6 is already the newest version
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@ghost:/home/ghost> apt-get install perl-5.6-base
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, perl-5.6-base is already the newest version
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Steeve Lennmark wrote:

> Nah, you just need some other perl-stuff, try: apt-cache search perl | grep
> 5.6
> 
> // Steeve.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Debian Ghost [mailto:debian@ghost.ntelos.net]
> > Sent: den 29 november 2000 14:14
> > To: JoshNarins@aol.com
> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: DESTROY
> > 
> > 
> > Ah,
> > That may explain it.
> > I had tried to upgrade from potato to woody, and as soon as 
> > the woody perl
> > was installed, my apt-get upgrade really crashed. All the 
> > packages started
> > having conflicts with each other (specifically gnome packages). 
> > 
> > Maybe I need to upgrade perl? Should I dpkg --purge perl or is there a
> > better way with apt? I'm afraid since the package is new that it will
> > think I don't need to change it.
> > 
> > Any advice appriciated!
> > 
> > D. Ghost
> > 
> > On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 JoshNarins@aol.com wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > DESTROY is all about perl. DebConf is a Debian specific
> > > perl package.
> > > 
> > > Have you uninstalled perl?
> > > Have you hand isntalled a newer perl?
> > > Is DebConf in your @INC or $PERL5LIB?
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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