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Re: Problem with yesterday's woody update



On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:07:16PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 05:24:17PM +0000, Colin Watson (cjw44@flatline.org.uk) wrote:
> > Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net> wrote:
> > >Not being conversant in perl, can someone tell me what to do about the
> > >following error I received after the latest woody updates:
> 
> <...>
> 
> > I suspect testing is broken (new perl, old debconf). Wait for a newer
> > debconf to get in, or install the debconf from unstable.
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is the fix I used, and recommended by Joey Hess.

Can you suggest how to do this?  I get:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  debconf: Depends: libapt-pkg3.1
E: Sorry, broken packages

fennywood:/home/jonathan# apt-get install libapt-pkg3.1
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Note, selecting apt instead of libapt-pkg3.1
Sorry, apt is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 202  not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up libpaperg (1.0.5) ...
Can't locate Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5
.) at /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpaperg.config line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpaperg.config
line 3.
dpkg: error processing libpaperg (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libpaperg
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Around and around again we go...

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