Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

["J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>]

On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:20:40 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adduser:
>  adduser depends on perl-base; however:
>   Package perl-base is not installed.

This is the root of your problem. Many other packages fail because their
maintainer scripts are written in perl.

Try downloading a perl-base .deb and installing that with dpkg 
(dpkg -OEG -i perl-base*deb).

HTH,
Ray
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