Re: debian-powerpc: debconf, perl, apt-get errors

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Brendan J Simon wrote:
> 
> Thanks Michel,
> Here is what dpkg says on my machine.
> 
> $ dpkg -l | grep perl
> ii  dpkg-perl  0.1-5
> ii  libnet-perl  1.0703-4.1
> ii  libperl5.6  5.6.0-21
> ii  perl  5.6.1-4
> ii  perl-5.005  6.1
> ii  perl-5.005-bas  6.1
> ii  perl-base  5.6.1-4
> ii  perl-modules  5.6.1-4
> 
> I left out the descriptions.  Maybe it is perl 5.6.1 ???  I'll see if I can
> remove it and replace it with perl 5.6.0.

Yep, perl is one of the things I'm very reluctant to take from unstable.

I'd first try removing the 5.005 packages though, I remember having some
problems when I had those installed yet.


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