Re: Bleeding edge install: mysql, perl (also apache)
Check the archives WRT Perl problems in Unstable (especially the thread
titled "Brave New Perl"). The short version is that they changed the
versioning scheme on the perl packages in unstable, so anything in that
depends on perl will be very unstable until all such packages are upgraded
to the new scheme.
Weren't you warned that following unstable could cause problems? ;)
The best solution is, if possible, to find the deb for libdbi-perl from
before the change (version 1.06-3 on my system, but i don't have the deb)
downgrade to that, and put it on hold until; things are worked out. Second
best is to go back to slink, at least for that package (again, put it on
hold). You'll also have to put several other packages on hold to keep the
system from attempting to update your perl to an incompatible version.
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, David H. Silber wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to install Apache, PHP3 & MySQL on a potato system. I'm
> getting some weird dependancy problems, which I cannot seem to get
> around.
>
> Currently I have:
> $ dpkg -l *perl* *mysql* *apache* | grep -v ^[up]n
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-===============-==============-============================================
> ii libdbi-perl 1.12-1 The Perl5 Database Interface by Tim Bunce
> ii perl-5.004 5.004.05-1 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
> ii perl-5.004-base 5.004.05-1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
> ii perl-5.005 5.005.03-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
> ii perl-5.005-base 5.005.03-2 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
> ii perl-5.005-doc 5.005.03-2 Man pages and pod docs for Perl
> ii perl-base 5.004.05-1 Fake package assuring that one of the -base
> ii libmysqlclient6 3.22.23b-3 mysql database client library
> ii mysql-doc 3.22.23b-1 mysql database documentation
> ii mysql-manual 0.95-1-1 MySQL Manual in HTML format
> rc apache 1.3.6-11 Versatile, high-performance HTTP server
> rc apache-common 1.3.6-11 Support files for all Apache webservers
>
>
> When I try to install mysql-client, I get:
> # apt-get install mysql-client
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> mysql-client: Depends: libdbi-perl but it is not installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
>
> ... but notice that I have libdbi-perl installed!!
>
>
> Furthermore, when I attempt to install apache, I get:
> # apt-get install apache
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> apache-common perl perl-5.004-doc
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> perl-5.005 libdbi-perl perl-5.005-base perl-5.005-doc
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> apache-common perl apache perl-5.004-doc
> 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 4 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/3049kB of archives. After unpacking 6238kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
>
> ... at which point, I say `n', because I need the libdbi-perl package
> (and therefore, the perl-5.005 packages that libdbi-perl depends on).
>
>
> I could probably force the install of the mysql packages, but I would
> still be left with apache's install problem. Any suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> P. S. Just in case it matters:
> $ dpkg -l apt dpkg
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-===============-==============-============================================
> ii apt 0.3.11 Advanced front-end for dpkg
> ii dpkg 1.4.1.3 Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux pluto 2.2.5 #1 Sat May 1 02:57:30 EDT 1999 i486 unknown
>
>
>
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