This is a bug in apt. See bug 46233.
I got over it by running `dpkg -i' on the packages over and over
until everything feel in place. There's a test-release of apt
that is supposed to fix the problem. See the bottom of the bug
report about where to find it.
--
Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546
6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/
"David J. Kanter" wrote:
> I would like to install/upgrade the fvwmconf package but cannot because of
> an apt-get error regarding the perl package. What should I do?
>
> When downloading fvwmconf, several perl packages are also downloaded. During
> the configuration state, the error I get is this:
>
> E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
> package perl-base due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad,
> but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
> E: Internal Error, Could not early remove perl-base
>
> What should I do? Is it a good thing that this stopped me, or should I
> override this? And if so, how do I override this?
