Re: Is Perl 5.004.04-3 Package Routine Broken?
Wintermute writes:
> New problem.
>
> When I attempt to install the Perl 5.004.04-3 file, it breaks at the
> post-installation phase.
> As such, other updates that require Perl will not configure themselves.
>
> I have even fetched the file manually and used dpkg (with most all of
> the debugging options) and still no luck. I can run the Perl post
> install script by hand with "configure" and it runs just fine, but for
> some reason dpkg and dselect both tell me that it can't configure it
> because the post install script returned error "123".
Same problem here. After trying to install it with dpkg, I runned the postinst
script manually with the 'configure' parameter. Then I edited the
/var/lib/dpkg/status file, in the perl package section changed the line
install ok not-configured
to
install ok installed
and deleted the line which read
configured version: previous_package_version_here (or something like that)
This kludge fooled dpkg into thinking that perl was ok (and I think it really
is ok, haven't had any problems) and I could move on to the other packages.
My excuse for doing it is that I don't know deb package internals and didn't
have the previous libc6 perl pack. anymore.
Regards,
--
Adriano
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