Hi, "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:20:40 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote: > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adduser: > > adduser depends on perl-base; however: > > Package perl-base is not installed. > > This is the root of your problem. Many other packages fail because their > maintainer scripts are written in perl. > > Try downloading a perl-base .deb and installing that with dpkg > (dpkg -OEG -i perl-base*deb). I have the whole snapshot on CD-Rom. Did so: dpkg -OEG -i perl-base_5.004.05-1.deb -> Skipping deselected package perl-base dselect [C] same result.
??? Thanks Andreas
