Re: Broken Packages

["George A. Dowding" <dowdingg@saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu>]

I have made things worse.  Also, I am unable to locate those packages
of which you speak.  Where are they at or how do I find them?

Paul Slootman writes:
 > On Sat 27 Jan 2001, George A. Dowding wrote:
 > > 
 > > Global symbol "@EXPORT" requires explicit package name at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19.
 > > syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19, near "our @EXPORT"
 > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 7.
 > 
 > This sounds like problems in debconf and/or perl.
 > 
 > Install the latest debconf by hand (dpkg -i debconf_......deb)
 > if you don't have the latest version yet (0.5.49 in sid).
 > 
 > Ditto for perl5.6; I have the following installed:
 > 
 > perl-5.005     5.005.03-7.1
 > perl-5.005-base 5.005.03-7.1
 > perl-5.6       5.6.0-6.2
 > perl-5.6-base  5.6.0-6.2
 > perl-5.6-suid  5.6.0-6.2
 > perl-base      5.004.05-1.1
 > 
 > 
 > Paul Slootman
 > -- 
 > home:       paul@wurtel.net      http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/
 > work:       paul@murphy.nl       http://www.murphy.nl/
 > debian:     paul@debian.org      http://www.debian.org/
 > isdn4linux: paul@isdn4linux.org  http://www.isdn4linux.org/

-- 
Thanks,
George

dowdingg@math.uaa.alaska.edu 
http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~dowdingg