Re: Errors trying to do aptitude upgrade

["Dennis G. Wicks" <wix@eskimo.com>]

Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2008 09:31 AM:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:51:35AM -0600, "Dennis G. Wicks" <wix@eskimo.com> was heard to say:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> I am running aptitude upgrade after aptitude update and
>> everything works fine up to a point.
>>
>> Everything is downloaded and after it starts the
>> installs I get messages like this. This is the first set.
>>
>>> Preparing to replace util-linux 2.12r-19 (using .../util-linux_2.12r-19etch1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Errno architecture (i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.18.3) does not match executable architecture (i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.22-3-amd64) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm line 11.
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>   It looks like you have a local copy of a Perl module for the wrong
> architecture.  Maybe fixing that would help?
> 
>   Daniel
>

Thanks! That got me pointed in the right direction and
after a lot of fumbling and fearing that I had
destroyed my system I found the the one that was
causing the problem.

Dennis