On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:49:43PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: | Hi: | | I am trying to upgrade testing on my second machine (apt-get | update; apt-get dist-upgrade) but it aborts. So I first tried to | install debconf ( apt-get install debconf ) and I get: | | Extra Packages to be installed: | libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-target-perl libmime-base64-perl | libperl5.6 perl perl-5.004 perl-5.004-suid perl5.6 | perl-base perl-modules. | | Removed: perl-5.004-base | perl-5.005 | perl-5.005-base | | New: libhtml-tagset-perl | libperl5.6 | perl | perl-modules | perl-suid | | Essential package to be removed: perl-5.004-base. You are about to do | something potentially harmful. Don't do this unless you know what you | are doing. | | At this stage I aborted. Anybody have any ideas whether its Ok | to say yes?
The perl version changed. However, perl is a critical component of the Debian core (dpkg or apt or debconf or something like that). If you do a dist-upgrade then everything will get upgraded together and there won't be a problem because you replace one perl with another, and all the packages that depend on it are replaced with packages that depend on the new perl instead. I did a dist-upgrade a few weeks ago without any trouble. Maybe if you try again, as opposed to upgrading stuff one-at-a-time it will work better? Why did it abort in the first place? Did dpkg just die? If so, run it again (it happened to me a couple times). At the moment I have : $ dpkg -l perl\*base Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: |uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ pn perl-5.004-bas <none> (no description available) ii perl-5.005-bas 6.2 Transitional package. un perl-5.6-base <none> (no description available) ii perl-base 5.6.1-5 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. un perl5-base <none> (no description available) -D
