Both of those (perl-5.6 and perl-5.6-base are installed. By removing a large portion of my X system I reduced the errors to just those relavent to debconf:
Setting up debconf (0.5.32) ... Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 219. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 23. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 23. dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsdmainutils: bsdmainutils depends on debconf; however: Package debconf is not configured yet. Package debconf-tiny which provides debconf is not installed. dpkg: error processing bsdmainutils (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured There has got to be some perl hax0r on this list who knows a way around this. -Aaron Joey Hess wrote: > Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > the problem is debconf, which has an undeclared dependency on perl5.6, > > Package: debconf > Depends: perl-5.6, perl-5.6-base, fileutils (>= 4.0-5), libapt-pkg2.7, libc6 > (>= 2.1.97), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > -- > see shy jo
