Depends: perl but it is not installable
Dear group.
I have by mistake said yes to apt-get removing a lot of packages. If I
try to reinstall I get this:
Depends: perl (>= 5.6) but it is not installable
How do I fix that?
Thanks, Jacob
p.s. what I did:
# apt-get --target-release testing install amavisd-new apache
apache-common apache-utils build-essential courier-authdaemon
courier-authmysql courier-base courier-imap courier-imap-ssl
courier-maildrop courier-mlm courier-pcp courier-ssl courier-webadmin
couriergraph cupsys daemontools-installer debhelper defoma
dictionaries-common djbdns-installer dpkg-dev foomatic-bin foomatic-db
foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters gs-common
gs-esp gs-gpl gsfonts hpijs iamerican ibritish intltool-debian
ispell libarchive-tar-perl libarchive-zip-perl libberkeleydb-perl
libcompress-zlib-perl libconvert-binhex-perl libconvert-tnef-perl
libconvert-uulib-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl
libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libfile-tail-perl
libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libio-multiplex-perl
libio-string-perl libio-stringy-perl libio-zlib-perl
libmail-spf-query-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-perl
libnet-cidr-lite-perl libnet-daemon-perl libnet-dns-perl libnet-perl
libnet-server-perl libplrpc-perl librrds-perl libtimedate-perl
libunix-syslog-perl liburi-perl logtail logwatch mysql-client-4.1
mysql-server-4.1 perl-modules po-debconf portsentry postgrey
spamassassin spell sqwebmail
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amavisd-new: Depends: libtime-hires-perl
Depends: libdigest-md5-perl
Depends: libmime-base64-perl
Depends: perl but it is not installable
apache: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-2) but it is not installable
apache-common: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-2) but it is not installable
apache-utils: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-2) but it is not installable
courier-base: Depends: perl but it is not installable
debhelper: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
defoma: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
dictionaries-common: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
dpkg-dev: Depends: perl5
foomatic-db-engine: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
foomatic-filters: Depends: perl but it is not installable
intltool-debian: Depends: perl but it is not installable
libarchive-tar-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libarchive-zip-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libberkeleydb-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-5) but it is not installable
libcompress-zlib-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-6) but it is not installable
libconvert-binhex-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6) but it is not installable
libconvert-tnef-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libconvert-uulib-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-3) but it is not installable
libdbd-mysql-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-2) but it is not installable
libdigest-hmac-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
Depends: libdigest-md5-perl or
perl (>= 5.8) but it is not installable
libdigest-sha1-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-2.3) but it is not installable
libfile-tail-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
Depends: libtime-hires-perl
libhtml-parser-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-2.3) but it is not installable
libhtml-tagset-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libio-multiplex-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libio-string-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libio-stringy-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libio-zlib-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libmail-spf-query-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libmailtools-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libmime-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-2.3) but it is not installable
libnet-cidr-lite-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libnet-daemon-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libnet-dns-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-2) but it is not installable
Depends: libmime-base64-perl
libnet-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libnet-server-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libplrpc-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
librrds-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-3) but it is not installable
libtimedate-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
libunix-syslog-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-2) but it is not installable
liburi-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
Depends: libmime-base64-perl
logtail: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.0) but it is not installable
logwatch: Depends: perl but it is not installable
mysql-client-4.1: Depends: perl but it is not installable
mysql-server-4.1: Depends: perl (>= 5.6) but it is not installable
perl-modules: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.4-1) but it is not installable
po-debconf: Depends: perl but it is not installable
postgrey: Depends: perl but it is not installable
spamassassin: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not installable
Depends: perl (>= 5.8.0) but it is not installable or
libstorable-perl
E: Broken packages
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