Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

[Gordon Sadler <gbsadler1@ispchannel.com>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:19:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Gordon Sadler wrote:
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
> > 6 packages not fully installed or removed.
> > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
> > /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory
> > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (127)
> > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
> 
> Move /etc/apt/apt.conf out of the way; your perl is broken.

Thanks for the fast reply, however...
I did this
cd /etc/apt
mv apt.conf apt.conf.org
sudo apt-get upgrade
.
.
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Setting up perl-5.6 (5.6.0-1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/perl-5.6.postinst: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing perl-5.6 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-5.6-suid:
perl-5.6-suid depends on perl-5.6 (= 5.6.0-1); however:
Package perl-5.6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing perl-5.6-suid (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up developers-reference (2.8.1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/developers-reference.postinst: /usr/sbin/install-docs: No suc
h file or directory
dpkg: error processing developers-reference (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up gnuplot (3.7.1p1-4) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gnuplot.postinst: /usr/share/debconf/frontend: No such file o
r directory
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gnuplot.postinst: /usr/share/debconf/frontend: No such file o
r directory
dpkg: error processing gnuplot (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-5.6-debug:
perl-5.6-debug depends on perl-5.6 (= 5.6.0-1); however:
Package perl-5.6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing perl-5.6-debug (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-5.6-thread:
perl-5.6-thread depends on perl-5.6 (= 5.6.0-1); however:
Package perl-5.6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing perl-5.6-thread (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
perl-5.6
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I know this looks long winded, but that is the results I got. Any 
ideas or suggestions?

Thanks again.