Chad Day wrote: > > 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 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null hi,
i have no recent perl experience, but when i upgraded from slink (2.1) to potato (2.2), the perl package upgraded to 5.005 w/o any snags. (...maybe a potato upgrade is in order.) hth. bentley taylor. //
