Re: dist-upgrde from slink to potato

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Tue 25 Jan 2000, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:

> I tried upgrading slink to potato last night on a clean install and it
> complained and othe stuff depends on debconf being configured (lynx, netbase
> and a couple of others)
> help?
> debconf dies with:
> beowulf:~# dpkg --configure debconf
> Setting up debconf (0.2.79) ...
> Can't locate Data/Dumper.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

AFAIK Dumper.pm is contained in perl-5.005-base . I don't know about
debconf 0.2.79, but 0.2.80 has a dependency on perl-5.005, and that has
a dependency on perl-5.005-base...  So try installing perl-5.005-base
manually first.


Paul Slootman
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