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

["jennyw" <jennyw@dangerousideas.com>]

Thanks, I only just realized it was from woody ... I had added braincells so
I could install imapd and that's where webmin-ssl came from, too.  So maybe
I'll try woody since it has the software I'm most interested in ...

Thanks!

Jen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Watson" <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Trouble getting webmin-postfix; apt-get says perl isn't
installed but it is


> 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,
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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