Now that you mention it, I did the same thing and got the same result. However, my upgrade worked.
apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade perl from 5.004 to 5.005 for the same reason it won't upgrade emacs19 to emacs20. They are different packages. The package is perl-5.005_5.005.03 and not perl_5.005.03, and so the package `name' is perl-5.005 and not simply `perl'. I don't know if it was supposed to replace perl-5.004 automatically. Peter "Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > I've finally succeeded in getting a working potato box by installing > slink base system (using cdrom), but it took 3 tries. I've done this > before (the machine I'm using to write this was installed this way), > but never had this much trouble. > > What I discovered was that changing sources.list to point to potato > and doing 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade > perl from 5.004 to 5.005. This causes several of the installation and > post-installation scripts to fail, the first being libncurses4. (Later > failures /may/ have been due to libncurses4 not being configured. I'm > not sure.) > > My fix was to use dselect to select perl 5.005 for installation. This > worked. > > Has anyone had a similar experience? Is this a bug? If it is a bug, > against what? > > -- > Regards, > Steve > > Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, > useful, technically accurate, and friendly. > Reboots are for kernel and hardware upgrades.
