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Re: Debian upgrade problems/perl



On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:53:15PM -0400, Chad Day wrote:
> I'd love to upgrade to potato, but...
> 
> vw1:/usr/local/pkgs# apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   perl-5.005: Depends: perl-5.005-base (= 5.005.03-7.1) but it is not
> installable
>   libdb2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3-2) but 2.1.2-5 is installed
>   libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.0.7.19981211-6) but 2.1.2-5 is installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> 
> I apparently need to get these resolved first.  That perl-5.005 line is from
> me trying a dpkg -i of perl-5.005 and perl-5.005-base.

Did you run 

  apt-get -f install

yet?

If you have, (or you haven't but do and it still doesn't work), try

  apt-get install libc6

HTH,

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