RE: Debian upgrade problems/perl
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Chad Day wrote:
> 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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I think maybe u need to uninstall perl and install perl5 package..
however,you need to upgrade many package for that since many old package
depend on perl
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