I've screwed something up - big time.

["Craig W" <craigw@bigpond.net.au>]

Hi,

I recently had an issue installing php-nuke on my web-site, when installing
it came up with an error relating to MySql , so me thinking I would be smart
added the lines in the sources.list to access the "testing" packages,
updated the available file & installed the latest MySQL in testing. Lo &
behold this didn't correct the issue. So I thought I'd simply remove it,
comment out the testing lines in my sources.list, update & then re-install
the version from stable. Bad move. Not only did MySQL remove itself, it took
out Apache, Perl, Proftpd, PHP,etc. basically left me with a bare box. Ok, I
thought & tried to re-install these using apt, now all I get are errors
stating that Perl needs to be installed before I can install anything else,
yet when trying to install Perl I get the following error;


 apt-get install perl-5.004
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  perl-5.004: Depends: perl-5.004-base (= 5.004.05-6) but 6.3 is to be
installed
E: Sorry, broken packages


I tried to install perl-5.004-base, but it tells me it is already the latest
version?

Can someone advise on a quick solution (I can pull them down from source,
compile,etc., but I need the server back up asap, asignment due).

I would hate to have the RH box I have acting as a webserver, it is only for
testing other distro's & isn't really powerful enough to cope with the
rigours of a web server.

Is there something I missed?
Is there someway to manually edit the list of installed packages to kick it
into re-installing perl (& what is the filename of said file?)?

Regards,

Craig.