Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't installed but it is

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 06:01:49AM -0800, jennyw wrote:
> I tried to apt-get install postfix-webmin, but it tells me that:
> 
> towanda:/home/jen# dpkg --install webmin-postfix_0.89-1_all.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package webmin-postfix.
> (Reading database ... 11994 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking webmin-postfix (from webmin-postfix_0.89-1_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of webmin-postfix:
>  webmin-postfix depends on perl; however:
>   Package perl is not installed.

I suggest that you upgrade to woody before trying to install packages
from woody on a stable system. From the messages you quote, it looks
like the rest of your system is on stable.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]