Re: apt-get install debconf problem

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

You need to make /usr/bin/perl point to perl-5.6, not perl-5.5, or
perl-4.0, or whatever wacky thing it points to on your system.
Corrected perl packages will come out eventually.

john smith wrote:
> hi,
> that's the problem... I think there's a syntax error in 
> usr/perl/debconf/gettext.pm...something about a reserved word ("our") being 
> used. template.pm also reported an error.
> 
> 
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> >john smith wrote:
> > > I am having some trouble installing/upgrading debconf from unstable...is
> > > anybody having a similar problem?
> >
> >That's rather hard to tell since you have not explained what the problem
> >is.
> >
> >You may just need to instal perl-5.6 first though.
> >
> >--
> >see shy jo
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