ben wrote: > here's the relevant part about perl being unconfigured. the later section > about files list files missing is > something i've dealt with before but not, apparently, with an unconfigured > perl. > > [paste] > Reading changelogs...33%Reading changelogs...66%Reading changelogs...Done > debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debconf/Log.pm in @INC (@INC > contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 > /usr/lib/perl5 > /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at (eval > 1) > line 4. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4. > ) -- aborting
Looks like you either have a broken debconf install, or too old a version has somehow been installed. What version of debconf do you currently have install? dpkg -s debconf > (Reading database ... > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `nas-lib' missing, assuming > package has no files currently installed. > > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kdelibs3' missing, > assuming > package has no files currently installed. > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/konsole_4%3a2.2.2-8_i386.deb > [paste] Sounds like you have some disk corruption going on here. -- see shy jo