Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> You have the package perl, version 5.004-blah installed, not the
> package perl5 (which is actually only a virtual package, provided by
> the various flavours of the perl-5.00x packages.
>
> Why do I need perl5 again.. Ah, yes convert-metadata.db needs it.
>
> Reorganisation of the perl packages is one of the things in potato
> that make rebuilding packages not that easy.
>
> You can either change debian/control to depend on perl instead of
> perl5 and rebuild it, or you can --force-depends the existing package,
> but I think dpkg, apt and dselect will bitch about the missing perl5
> package, so the first alternative is the better way.
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Thanks! that did it. i still had to use --force-overwrite to install the
offending file, but now everything works fine.
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