Debian upgrade problems/perl
I'm trying to upgrade my perl on my debian 2.1 system to 5.005, but am
having serious problems, as shown below. Myself and another system admin
here have both tried this, but have gotten either stuck or broken libc. I'm
back at the point where I have to fix this, and I'm going to need some help,
as I can't afford to hose this system since it's in production.
When i run apt-get install, I get:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
libdb2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3-2) but 2.1.2-5 is installed
tin: Depends: metamail but it is not installed
libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.0.7.19981211-6) but 2.1.2-5 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify
a solution).
When I run apt-get -f install to fix stuff, I get:
The following extra packages will be installed:
metamail
The following packages will be REMOVED:
sendmail at g++ htdig libstdc++2.9-dev libncurses4-dev egcc libdb2 elm-me+
libc6-dev man-db mailx libpcap-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
metamail
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 13 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
So, that would be bad it looks like. :\
>From viewing the Debian webpage, I see that perl-5.005 requires
perl-5.005-base, which requires libc6 >= 2.1.2 (which is fine) and libdb2 >=
1:2.4.14-7.
>From above though, I have:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
libdb2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3-2) but 2.1.2-5 is installed
So it looks like I need to go about upgrading libc6 to 2.1.3-2 before I can
do anything else.. I'm confused though, because I think that libc6-dev is
going to need upgrading, but it requires libc6 = 2.0.7.19981211-6, but it's
not a >= .. so that's going to be a problem, no?
Any ideas on how to go about properly upgrading this system without breaking
it? :(
Thanks,
Chad
-----Original Message-----
From: Chad Day
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 12:52 PM
To: 'Michael Stone'; ma-linux@tux.org
Subject: RE: just can't decide
Couple months ago. I needed to upgrade to perl 5.005 to be able to run
minivend.. My memory is a little foggy about it, but perl 5.005-base
requires libc6 2.12 or greater, but we have libc6-dev, which depends on
libc6 = 2.0.7 (would not accept greater), and had to install the fake
package to trick debian, and you had to spin around 3 times while installing
while hopping on one foot and chanting "I love ESR". I must have chanted
wrong, because I ended up breaking the libraries and segfaulting everything.
My co-worker then tried, and wound up in the exact same state that I did.
Either way, I got what I deserved for messing with unstable packages and not
having a total and full understanding of what I was doing. I thought I did,
but I must have installed something in the wrong order.. but it shouldn't be
that easy to hose your system.
That, or I'm more talented than I thought. My friend was amazed when I told
him I broke Debian. :)
<shrug>
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Stone [mailto:mstone@cs.loyola.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 12:37 PM
To: ma-linux@tux.org
Subject: Re: just can't decide
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:01:30PM -0400, Chad Day wrote:
> I had a horrendous problem trying to upgrade to perl 5.005 on Debian and
> dealing with trying to force the installation, upgrading libc, fake
> packages, and it was just chaotic. Part of it was my ignorance, but it
> shouldn't have been that difficult to begin with.. FreeBSD seems to handle
> dependency issues better in my experience.
When and how did you do that?
--
Mike Stone
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