William Burrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I upgraded to potato, hoping to get access to all the fine stuff in the > distro, but find I am stuck with Perl 5.004. Packages I want to install > want 5.005. I want Perl 5.005. Why is it that apt left 5.004 behind? > Is the reason logged somewhere? Is there something I missed that might > do the upgrade? Do I have to ditch some packages that depend on 5.004? > Why would dist-upgrade miss this?
Perl has apparently been a continuing problem with potato. I just installed potato on a "fresh" laptop using the floppies and the Internet. Apt stopped working because debconf's installation script expects Perl 5.005 to be installed, but the installer actually sets up 5.004. Luckily I happen to be computer-savvy enough to upgrade manually using dselect (which I recommend to you) but it was annoying and wasted a lot of my time. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>
