Damon Muller wrote: > I'm guessing that the issue is perl related, as the new packages to be > installed were all perl ones. > > Is there any way to work around this (just do an upgrade, rather than a > dist-upgrade and ignore all the ones that have been held back?)?
It's impossible to tell what you're running into since you didn't bother to post the actual apt message or any useful diagnostic information, but you might try removing base-config. -- see shy jo