Re: "Could not perform immediate configuration" with debian-med
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:24:13PM -0400, Scott Cain wrote:
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>
> then
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get install gbrowse
Uhmmm, you most probably want to read
http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences
and
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
take the /etc/apt/preferences file from the latter URL!
> apt-get presented me with a long list of packages that it was going to
> install and I answered yes.
Rule of thumb: If the list of packages apt-get wants to install is
longer than three lines - just say no - except if you are *really* sure
what you are doing. It usually means you are switching to a new release
(from stable to testing or unstable) which you obviosely do not intend
to do.
> After downloading things for a while,
> apt-get died with this message:
>
> E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on
> perl-modules
>
> I've never seen this message before, and even googling around has not
> enlightened me. Can you please tell me what went wrong and how to fix
> it?
This is probably due to the Perl upgrade in testing and Nelson just
quoted the according bug. You have two options:
tentative approach:
Try reinstalling stable and use /etc/apt/preferences as
suggested.
venturous approach:
Either remove the unstable line from your sources.list or set
the preferences to stick to testing by giving it a higher pinning
value as unstable. Then try to fix your system (depending how
broken it is) and stick to testing - or even rolling once the next
cut is rolled out.
If you decided for one of these options just tell us in which direction
you might beed further help.
Thanks for your interest in Debian Med
Andreas.
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http://fam-tille.de
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