Re: Aptitude cannot upgrade libperl5.10

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:11:21 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:

>> % aptitude show libperl5.10 | awk '/^Package/,/^Version/' Package:
>> libperl5.10
>> State: not installed
>> Automatically installed: no
>> Version: 5.10.1-14
>> 
>> . . . 
>> 
>> $ apt-cache policy libperl5.10
>> libperl5.10:
>>   Installed: 5.10.1-12
>>   Candidate: 5.10.1-14
>>   Version table:
>>      5.10.1-14 0
>>         360 http://cdn.debian.net testing/main Packages
>>          50 http://cdn.debian.net unstable/main Packages
>>  *** 5.10.1-12 0
>>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

 : : : 

>> OK, now I think the problem is that my aptitude's status log is messed
>> up. . . 
> 
> Indeed, there seems to be a problem with aptitude's databases. Please
> check what dpkg itself thinks about libperl, i.e.
> 
>   dpkg -l libperl\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'

$ dpkg -l libperl\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
ii libperl5.10 5.10.1-12
un libperl5.8 <none>

So both dpkg and apt-get think libperl is installed, except aptitude.

Is there any way for me to rebuild my aptitude's databases?

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