On 29-Dec-1999 William Burrow wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:01:32PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> Perl 5.005 and Perl 5.004 are significantly different in their >> compatibility that it was decided to make two independent packages of >> the two that can coexist on the system. You can install the perl-5.005 > > I tried using dpkg to install perl 5.005, but it complained there was a > conflict with the already installed 5.004 package. I am attempting to > set up enough to get dselect to work, maybe it will do something.
See the list of packages on the Debian packages page, searching for perl. There is a fake package that allows you to upgrade; I believe you will have upgrade problems if you do not install the fake perl package first. I believe it is called "perl-base". -- Andrew *who just wrestled with a similar problem*
