You wrote: > I am in trouble updating perl 5.004 -> 5.005 in debian/potato. > Currently perl 5.004 is installed together with _fake_ perl and > perl-base, > needed to allow upgrading to 5.005: > > ii perl 5.004.05-2 Fake package used for a smooth > upgrade > ii perl-5.004 5.004.05-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and > Report > ii perl-5.004-base 5.004.05-3 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish > Lister > ii perl-5.004-doc 5.004.05-3 Man pages and pod docs for Perl > ii perl-base 5.004.05-1 Fake package assuring that one of the > -base > iU perl-5.005 5.005.03-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and > Report > > perl-base-2.005 installation fails, apparently due to conflict with just > the _fake_ perl package:
Try going into dselect, then select perl-5.005-base, perl-5.005, perl-5.005-doc, and perl-base. This should force you get all of the perl-5.004 packages removed while upgrading to perl-5.005. The problem is you need to select perl-base to replace perl. p.s. That attachment was not given the correct mime-type. It came up as application/x-unknown here, while it should have been text/plain. Check your mail program. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/egm2.gpg | +----------------------------------------------------+
