Re: Depends: perl but it is not installable
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:38:51 +0100, Jacob Friis Larsen
<webcom.dk@gmail.com> wrote:
> # apt-cache policy perl
> perl:
> Installed: (none)
> Candidate: (none)
> Package Pin: (not found)
> Version Table:
> 5.8.4-6 1000
> 600 http://mirrors.sunsite.dk sarge/main Packages
> 500 http://mirrors.sunsite.dk sid/main Packages
[...]
> # apt-get install perl
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package perl is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> However the following packages replace it:
> perl-base libcgi-perl
> E: Package perl has no installation candidate
That's very strange (as is the behavior of your other system). Have
you tried another "apt-get update" to see if there was some "oops" in
the package lists that has since been fixed?
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages definitely lists perl as
existing in testing. I'm running unstable, and perl is present there.
Since you've got both distributions available, that one should at
least be picked up.
You might also try "apt-get -t testing install perl". At some point
you'll probably also want to run "apt-get -f install".
--
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
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