Martin Bialasinski wrote: > You have the package perl, version 5.004-blah installed, not the > package perl5 (which is actually only a virtual package, provided by > the various flavours of the perl-5.00x packages. > > Why do I need perl5 again.. Ah, yes convert-metadata.db needs it. > > Reorganisation of the perl packages is one of the things in potato > that make rebuilding packages not that easy. > > You can either change debian/control to depend on perl instead of > perl5 and rebuild it, or you can --force-depends the existing package, > but I think dpkg, apt and dselect will bitch about the missing perl5 > package, so the first alternative is the better way. ---------------REPLY-------------------- Thanks! that did it. i still had to use --force-overwrite to install the offending file, but now everything works fine.
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