RE: Debian upgrade problems/perl
I am hesistant to run apt-get -f install, as this is what it shows:
vw1:/usr/local/pkgs# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
perl-5.005 sendmail at g++ htdig libstdc++2.9-dev libncurses4-dev egcc
libdb2 elm-me+ libc6-dev man-db mailx libpcap-dev
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 14 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 25.0MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
Do I really need to remove all those packages? I am especially hesistant
about ripping out my current sendmail configuration, but if that's what
needs to be done to upgrade..
Chad
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:nnorman@midco.net]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 1:56 PM
To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: 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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