On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:30:07PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: > Setting up debconf (0.5.49) ... > Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 [...] > > 1. Is this just a matter of course? Do I need to work my way , slowly > and laboriously through these sorts of problems if I wish to install a > sid/unstable system , or is there l ikely to be a straightforward fix to > this which would enable me to install all of the packages without too > much hassle? I remember seeing similar errors while helping my friend upgrading from potato to sid. I don't know exactly where the problem lies, but reinstalling perl-5.6, perl-5.6-base and debconf seemed to fix it for us. You can't use apt-get just yet, but cd into /var/cache/apt/archives, you should find all the packages there. Simply install them using dpkg --install. Your mileage may vary, though. > 2. Are there documents somewhere which are specific to installind > sid/unstable? The documentation goes like this: 1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace every occurence of 'potato' or 'woody' with 'sid' and 'stable' or 'testing' with 'unstable'. 2. run apt-get update 3. run apt-get dist-upgrade If unstable weren't unstable, you shouldn't have had any problems whatsoever. Unfortunately this is not the case. Problems come and go as new packages are added and old ones upgraded, therefore an installation manual to unstable would always be outdated. Today there are known problems with perl and debconf, yesterday it was X4, day before yesterday glibc was fscked, and so on. Tomorrow it could be dpkg or apt that is broken. When woody was 'unstable' there was this following quote: "This release is currently considered ``unstable''. That means that things *will* break if you run it." Naturally the same quote now applies to sid. Have fun. -- Tommi Komulainen Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi GPG 1024D/68388EE6 6FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6
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