Re: debian-powerpc: debconf, perl, apt-get errors
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
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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