I'm trying to upgrade my perl on my debian 2.1 system to 5.005, but am having serious problems, as shown below. Myself and another system admin here have both tried this, but have gotten either stuck or broken libc. I'm back at the point where I have to fix this, and I'm going to need some help, as I can't afford to hose this system since it's in production.
When i run apt-get install, I get: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libdb2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3-2) but 2.1.2-5 is installed tin: Depends: metamail but it is not installed libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.0.7.19981211-6) but 2.1.2-5 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). When I run apt-get -f install to fix stuff, I get: The following extra packages will be installed: metamail The following packages will be REMOVED: sendmail at g++ htdig libstdc++2.9-dev libncurses4-dev egcc libdb2 elm-me+ libc6-dev man-db mailx libpcap-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: metamail 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 13 to remove and 5 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. So, that would be bad it looks like. :\ >From viewing the Debian webpage, I see that perl-5.005 requires perl-5.005-base, which requires libc6 >= 2.1.2 (which is fine) and libdb2 >= 1:2.4.14-7. >From above though, I have: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libdb2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3-2) but 2.1.2-5 is installed So it looks like I need to go about upgrading libc6 to 2.1.3-2 before I can do anything else.. I'm confused though, because I think that libc6-dev is going to need upgrading, but it requires libc6 = 2.0.7.19981211-6, but it's not a >= .. so that's going to be a problem, no? Any ideas on how to go about properly upgrading this system without breaking it? :( Thanks, Chad -----Original Message----- From: Chad Day Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 12:52 PM To: 'Michael Stone'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: just can't decide Couple months ago. I needed to upgrade to perl 5.005 to be able to run minivend.. My memory is a little foggy about it, but perl 5.005-base requires libc6 2.12 or greater, but we have libc6-dev, which depends on libc6 = 2.0.7 (would not accept greater), and had to install the fake package to trick debian, and you had to spin around 3 times while installing while hopping on one foot and chanting "I love ESR". I must have chanted wrong, because I ended up breaking the libraries and segfaulting everything. My co-worker then tried, and wound up in the exact same state that I did. Either way, I got what I deserved for messing with unstable packages and not having a total and full understanding of what I was doing. I thought I did, but I must have installed something in the wrong order.. but it shouldn't be that easy to hose your system. That, or I'm more talented than I thought. My friend was amazed when I told him I broke Debian. :) <shrug> -----Original Message----- From: Michael Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: just can't decide On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:01:30PM -0400, Chad Day wrote: > I had a horrendous problem trying to upgrade to perl 5.005 on Debian and > dealing with trying to force the installation, upgrading libc, fake > packages, and it was just chaotic. Part of it was my ignorance, but it > shouldn't have been that difficult to begin with.. FreeBSD seems to handle > dependency issues better in my experience. When and how did you do that? -- Mike Stone
