I am hesistant to run apt-get -f install, as this is what it shows: vw1:/usr/local/pkgs# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: perl-5.005 sendmail at g++ htdig libstdc++2.9-dev libncurses4-dev egcc libdb2 elm-me+ libc6-dev man-db mailx libpcap-dev 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 14 to remove and 9 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 25.0MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort.
Do I really need to remove all those packages? I am especially hesistant about ripping out my current sendmail configuration, but if that's what needs to be done to upgrade.. Chad -----Original Message----- From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 1:56 PM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Debian upgrade problems/perl On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:53:15PM -0400, Chad Day wrote: > I'd love to upgrade to potato, but... > > vw1:/usr/local/pkgs# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > perl-5.005: Depends: perl-5.005-base (= 5.005.03-7.1) but it is not > installable > libdb2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3-2) but 2.1.2-5 is installed > libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.0.7.19981211-6) but 2.1.2-5 is installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. > > I apparently need to get these resolved first. That perl-5.005 line is from > me trying a dpkg -i of perl-5.005 and perl-5.005-base. Did you run apt-get -f install yet? If you have, (or you haven't but do and it still doesn't work), try apt-get install libc6 HTH, -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
