Re: apt-get help
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
>
>
> I usually do it this way:
> As root, run dselect. When you get the menu, do an [U]pdate. Then do
> [S]elect and search for the perl and perl-base packages. When the
> package name is high-lighted, type "=". You can then quit dselect and
> try running apt-get again.
> When you want to remove the hold, run deselect again and type "+" when
> the package name is high-lighted.
>
> If it has been a while since you did an upgrade, you may want to
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" instead of just upgrade.
okay, i marked perl and perl-base as 'hold', then did apt-get update and
apt-get dist-upgrade with the same results. i'm stumped.
firestarter:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
perl: Depends: perl-modules (= 5.6.1-4) but 5.6.1-5 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
firestarter:~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
perl perl-base
The following held packages will be changed:
perl
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 359 not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 1637kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
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