Re: perl 5.8.0 dependancy issue? (iconv)
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 19:35, coriordan@compsoc.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I had some problems earlier doing and 'apt-get upgrade'
> on my i386/unstable box.
> perl-5.8.0-13 installed and configured fine but debconf
> failed to configure because of an error in one of its'
> perl install scripts.
> Unfortunatley I fixed the problem too quickly (by luck)
> and don't have the error messages for you. I believe
> installing 'libtext-iconv-perl' was what fixed it.
> Could there be a missing dependancy there?
>
> Just thought I'd drop youse a note. I'm not at all clued
> in about perl so if I'm talking crap just ignore this.
I found that debconf and dash would not install without Text/Iconv.pm,
and I had to install the package that contained that file, which was
indeed libtext-iconv-perl. I don't know if those specific packages
should have the dependency or whether it should be at a lower level.
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