Re: debian-powerpc: debconf, perl, apt-get errors
apt-get install perl/testing or apt-get install perl-base/testing did the trick.
Now debconf is happy, I can get my system back to some kind of stability.
Thanks,
Brendan Simon.
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Brendan J Simon wrote:
> >
> > A few weeks, I did an "apt-get upgrade" on my Titanium and now my system
> > wont upgrade many packages. I'm using testing and unstable with testing
> > being the default.
> >
> > apt-get returns all sorts of errors and I think it is a perl script
> > which is part of debconf. I have searched the archives but have found
> > no answer. One person suggested reinstalling debconf. I did an upgrade
> > but it was already the latest. I stupidly tried removing debconf, which
> > removed *lots* of other packages due to dependencies, but I thought I'd
> > be able to restore them all as they were in the apt cache. How wrong I
> > was :(
> >
> > I've tried reinstalling debconf/unstable debconf/testing and even tried
> > debconf/stable. It seems that debconf-tiny has no problems but a lot of
> > the packages I use require debconf.
> >
> > I've now lost my GNOME desktop and have to use virtual consoles for now.
> > There must be many others seeing similar problems but there's not much
> > on the mailing lists.
> > How can I get back on track ??
>
> I'm also running testing/unstable but don't suffer from this problem.
>
> ii debconf 0.9.41 Debian configuration management system
>
> and as it seems to be perl related, here's the output of dpkg -l|grep perl
>
> ii libperl5.6 5.6.0-21 Shared Perl library.
> ii libterm-stool- 0.26 Slang widget toolkit for perl
> ii perl 5.6.0-21 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
> ii perl-base 5.6.0-21 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
> ii perl-modules 5.6.0-21 Core Perl modules.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> --
> Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
> CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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