Re: "Could not perform immediate configuration" with debian-med
Hi Andreas,
Thanks for the suggestions, though I'm feeling neither tentative nor
venturous at the moment :-) I was unsurprised by the long list of
packages to be installed, since GBrowse does have a fairly long
dependency list. I'll wait for the gbrowse package to make it to
ubuntu, or for my IT folks to update the server in question to debian
6.
Thanks,
Scott
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de
>
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Scott Cain, Ph. D. scott at scottcain dot net
GMOD Coordinator (http://gmod.org/) 216-392-3087
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
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