Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...
Doug,
There seems to be a mess in the "unstable" branch right now
regarding Perl. They are trying to upgrade Perl 5.004 to 5.005.
Unfortunately, Perl is required by serveral packages, (Netscape, for
example), and there seem to be a bunch of conflicts.
I tried to update Netscape, and got into some trouble.
It seems that some netscape packages require Perl 5.004 while
Netscape support requires Perl 5.005. But 5.005 and 5.004 conflict,
so I lost Netscape, and have to wait for the unstable branch to settle
down.
I suggest staying out of the unstable branch for a few days.
Bryan
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
>
> I finally decided to try potato because I wanted an easy way of getting
> the latest postgresql (6.5)...
>
> I was running slink and used dselect to upgrade.
>
> The biggest problem it seemed to find was a change in perl (DB1.85 ->
> DB2). It said something about using perl-5.004 to dump the DB1.85
> databases and then reload perl5.005 or use db_dump185(1) and db_load(1)
> in libc6...
>
> What is this talking about? I only have perl loaded on my system
> because some other package required it. I am not sure what databases
> this is talking about. Any ideas?
>
> I have seen some references to using "apt" to install programs. Which
> method is the best for someone who doesn't play with this stuff very
> often - dselect or apt?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
>
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