shock wrote:
i am sorry to keep asking, but i cannot find a solution for this. i have a machine running woody. i hadn't updated it in a while, so a few days ago, i did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on it. here's the results. this happens any time i try to install any package with apt-get, so until i get this resolved, this machine is stuck.
Do you mean that installing any package fails because apt-get first tries to install perl and perl-base and stops at that point? If that is the case, you may want to put these packages on hold, and then run apt-get again to install the other packages.
By the way, when I search Debian Packages don't find the perl and perl-base packages in testing. They seem to have been pulled.
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/perl_5.6.1-5_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.6.1-5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-- Jerome