Hi all,
I have recently upgraded from woody to sid and have managed to break a few
things in the process. I am having trouble figuring out a solution as i find
dpkg's output somewhat cryptic .......
please find output from apt-get -f install below :-
The following extra packages will be installed:
debconf-utils libgmp2 libgmp3 libpcap0 libqt2 perl perl-base perl-modules
proftpd-common tcpdump wmmixer xbase-clients xlibs xutils
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xcontrib xpm4g
The following NEW packages will be installed:
debconf-utils libgmp3 libqt2 perl perl-modules proftpd-common xlibs xutils
6 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 2 to remove and 274 not upgraded.
11 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/8570kB of archives. After unpacking 22.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 29418 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xcontrib ...
Can't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/xaw-wrappers/
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/perl/5.6.0
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6
/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux .) at /usr/sbin/update-xaw-wrappers line 78.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-xaw-wrappers line 78.
dpkg: error processing xcontrib (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
xcontrib
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
and here is addtional output from vanilla apt-get install
r00t /etc/apt# apt-get install
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:
adduser: Depends: perl5
amanda-common: Depends: perl5
auto-pgp: Depends: perl5
debhelper: Depends: perl5 or
perl (>= 5.004) but it is not installed
doc-base: Depends: perl5
dpkg-dev: Depends: perl5
dpkg-perl: Depends: perl5
kernel-package: Depends: perl5
libnet-perl: Depends: perl5
libxaw6: Depends: xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11) but it is not installed
libxaw7: Depends: xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11) but it is not installed
licq-plugin-qt2: Depends: libqt2 (>= 1:2.0.2-1.0)
nessus: Depends: perl5 or
perl but it is not installed
proftpd: Depends: perl but it is not installed or
perl5
sgml-base: Depends: perl5
stow: Depends: perl5
xaw-wrappers: Depends: perl5 or
perl but it is not installed
xlib6g: Depends: xlibs but it is not installed
xlib6g-dev: Depends: xutils but it is not installed
xlibs-dev: Depends: xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11) but it is not installed
xlogmaster: Depends: perl5
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
i have patiently posted to a couple of irc forums namely #debian, #debianhelp
etc...but find the traffic rather disruptive in my search for a solution :p
Any help on this is warmly received
thanks in advance Graeme Grundill
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