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Re: need workaround for perl-5.6 bug to install unstable.



On Monday 05 February 2001 16:15, James Sinnamon wrote:
> 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

I ran into the same problem twice and ended-up reinstalling woody. This was 
mentioned earlier on this list, i believe the solution was to softlink your 
currently installed perl-5.x version with /usr/bin/perl, if not you can check 
the archives.


William



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