You might try installing perl-base... On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, John Gay wrote:
> > > I mentioned in a previous mail about the slight problem I had with debconf > when > I tried to install timidity. I've been following the thread about debconf, but > my problem is much different. > > When I first updated timidity from unstable, it installed perl 5.004 and > 5.005. > This completed properly, but there was something about changing some scripts? > I > don't use perl, and know nothing about it, so I just left it be. debconf then > failed for some strange perl error? it said something about looking for a file > in perl. I don't have the details with me, the Linux box is a home. I tried it > again last night, with the new, fixed debconf package but I still get the > error > about the missing perl file. timidity does work with the timidity and > timidity-patches installed and not configured due to the debconf problems, > but I > would like to figure out what is wrong with perl and why it is stopping > debconf > from configuring? I don't actually use perl, or debconf, and I'm not sure why > timidity should depend on it, but I am new to Linux. Please bear with me. > > Other than that, I really like the apt-get package. Most of this is small AND > self-inflicted by using unstable, but I wanted xmms, sane 1.0.1 and timidity. > I > can see why Corel chose Debian. and that decision make me feel real good about > my decision to use Debian when I first started playing with Linux about a year > ago. Keep up the good work. > > Cheers, > > John Gay > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
