Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).
On 7 Mar 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> oz@scorch.u-net.com (Brian Skreeg) writes:
>
> > Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and
> > dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken.
>
> io was merged into perl and is now obsolete. Remove io and reinstall
> perl.
>
> > bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory.
> >
> > This is odd since it's finding the correct program and the path for it but
> > is saying it can't find it. Spook! I've looksed in /usr/sbin and
> > start-stop-daemon is definitly in there.
>
> This actually means that bash couldn't find the interpreter -
> /usr/bin/perl. Did you remove perl completely? That would be bad.
Here I went and did the same thing. I installed from the unstable
distribution, hoping to circumvent the dependency problems in the stable
version that result in dpkg-ftp being deleted. Well, dpkg-ftp is still
around, but perl is gone. Somehow, the whole modutils package
disappeared, too. I remember it saying something like 'could not locate
modutils package' or something to that effect in dselect. I thought it
was just as well since it was already installed, though. So why would it
have deleted them? And perl?
-=John Doggett=->
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