interesting problem with libgbdm, libgbdmg, perl

[David Puryear <dayear@codenet.net>]

Hi all,

When I do:

:-> dpkg -i perl_5.004.02-1.deb libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb

dpkg: regarding perl_5.004.02-1.deb containing perl, pre-dependency problem:
 perl pre-depends on libgdbmg1
  libgdbmg1 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing perl_5.004.02-1.deb (--install):
 pre-dependency problem - not installing perl
dpkg: considering removing libgdbm1 in favour of libgdbmg1 ...
dpkg: no, cannot remove libgdbm1 (--auto-deconfigure will help):
 perl pre-depends on libgdbm1
  libgdbm1 is to be removed.
dpkg: regarding libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb containing libgdbmg1:
 libgdbmg1 conflicts with libgdbm1 (<= 1.7.3-20)
  libgdbm1 (version 1.7.3-19) is installed.
dpkg: error processing libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing libgdbmg1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 perl_5.004.02-1.deb
 libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb  

What is best way to get out of this loop? Do I need to force purge libgdbm1 and
install libgdbmg1?

This setup is mostly 1.3.1 with lib6, lib6-dev, and supporting packages needed
to install them.

Thanks for any help,
David


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