Apt-get install removes?
Hi!
I tried to install (upgrade) perl on my Debian Potato. What happened,
was shocking to me.
What was the problem? Why did install start such removing mayhem?
I have used both potato and woody as sources for different packages. I had
just commented woody out from /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get updated.
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root:~# apt-get install perl
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
auctex debconf eperl esound esound-common gnome-bin gnome-card-games
gnome-guile gnome-print gnumeric gnuplot gtop html2ps
libcompress-zlib-perl
libcurses-perl libesd0 libglade-gnome0 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0
libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtk-perl libguilegtk0
libhtml-parser-perl libmime-base64-perl libpgperl libsdl1.0 libsmpeg0
libterm-readkey-perl libtime-hires-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl lynx mon
perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-tk perlmagick perlmenu smpeg-gtv
The following NEW packages will be installed:
perl
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 42 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 904B of archives. After unpacking 36.5MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org potato/main perl 5.004.05-2 [904B]
Fetched 904B in 0s (5919B/s)
(Reading database ... 51929 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing acct ...
Stopping process accounting: done.
dpkg - warning: while removing acct, directory `/var/account' not empty so
not r
emoved.
Removing auctex ...
remove/auctex: Removing for emacs19... done.
remove/auctex: Removing for emacs20... done.
^CE: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
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I terminated the process with ctrl-C.
I would be thankful, if somebody told what was wrong. I suspect that
upgrading perl should not require removing e.g. gnome-bin.
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