need workaround for perl-5.6 bug to install unstable.
Dear Debian users,
I am stumped trying to install 'unstable/sid'.. When I run, for
example, 'apt-get install debconf', I get error
messages similar to the folllowing:
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Sorry, task-x-window-system-core is already the newest version
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
9 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up debconf (0.5.55) ...
Can't locate Fcntl.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54.
Compilation failed in require at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112.
...etc. I get similar messages, alos when I try to install other
packages like task-x-window-system-base
... according to some messages in the archives, this may be bug# 81485.
When I read through the archives, one solution suggested was to install
perl-5.6
(or was it perll-5.6-base? couldn't find perl-5.6). When I run apt-get
perl-5.6, the same
messages came up so I seem to be in a catch 22 situation.
I would be grateful if anyone could show me where there is information
about a
workaround that would get me around this problem so that I could start
to build my
'unstable' system.
TIA
James
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James Sinnamon sinnamon@usq.edu.au
ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669
PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350
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