On Mon, 15 May 2000, Chad Day wrote:
> 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > I think maybe u need to uninstall perl and install perl5 package.. however,you need to upgrade many package for that since many old package depend on perl
