Re: Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??
William Burrow" <aa126@fan.nb.ca> wrote:
> I upgraded to potato, hoping to get access to all the fine stuff in the
> distro, but find I am stuck with Perl 5.004. Packages I want to install
> want 5.005. I want Perl 5.005. Why is it that apt left 5.004 behind?
> Is the reason logged somewhere? Is there something I missed that might
> do the upgrade? Do I have to ditch some packages that depend on 5.004?
> Why would dist-upgrade miss this?
Perl has apparently been a continuing problem with potato. I just
installed potato on a "fresh" laptop using the floppies and the
Internet. Apt stopped working because debconf's installation script
expects Perl 5.005 to be installed, but the installer actually sets up
5.004.
Luckily I happen to be computer-savvy enough to upgrade manually using
dselect (which I recommend to you) but it was annoying and wasted a
lot of my time.
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