On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 03:05, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:42:13PM +0200, Tim van den Elsen wrote: > > A few days ago i wanted to update the newest packages. I always use > > 'dselect'. When dselect tried to update and install a certain package > > (it had something do to with perl, can't remember exact name) it gave an > > error. It was late that day so i went to bed :D > [...] > > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > > 2 packages not fully installed or removed. > > Need to get 0B/2800kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (syntax error at > > /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/FileHandle.pm line 10, near "@ISA =" > > Could you post the output of 'dpkg -l perl\*'? If any of them are in bad > states (normally indicated by one of the first two letters of a line > being in uppercase) then configuring it with 'dpkg --configure' or > reinstalling it may help. > > Also, make sure you don't have a strange version of perl somewhere else > on the $PATH while running dselect. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Since i am not such an expert in Debian.. here is the output of 'dpkg -l perl\*': 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 +++-===================-===================-====================================================== ii perl 5.6.1-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language. pn perl-5.004 <none> (no description available) pn perl-5.004-base <none> (no description available) pn perl-5.004-debug <none> (no description available) pn perl-5.004-doc <none> (no description available) pn perl-5.004-suid <none> (no description available) ii perl-5.005 6.3 Transitional package. ii perl-5.005-base 6.3 Transitional package. pn perl-5.005-debug <none> (no description available) ii perl-5.005-doc 6.3 Transitional package. ii perl-5.005-suid 6.3 Transitional package. pn perl-5.005-thread <none> (no description available) pn perl-5.6 <none> (no description available) ii perl-5.6-base 6.3 Transitional package. pn perl-5.6-debug <none> (no description available) pn perl-5.6-doc <none> (no description available) pn perl-5.6-suid <none> (no description available) ii perl-base 5.6.1-7 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. pn perl-byacc <none> (no description available) un perl-curses <none> (no description available) pn perl-debug <none> (no description available) ii perl-doc 5.6.1-7 Perl documentation. ii perl-modules 5.6.1-7 Core Perl modules. ii perl-suid 5.6.1-7 Runs setuid Perl scripts. pn perl-tk <none> (no description available) pn perl2html <none> (no description available) un perl5 <none> (no description available) un perl5-base <none> (no description available) un perl5-thread <none> (no description available) un perlapi-5.005 <none> (no description available) un perlapi-5.6.0 <none> (no description available) un perlapi-5.6.1 <none> (no description available) pn perlmagick <none> (no description available) pn perlmenu <none> (no description available) pn perlsgml <none> (no description available) pn perltidy <none> (no description available) server:~# I see two different versions.. I don't know if that is the problem? If it is how can i safely uninstall the older version? Thanks in advance, Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
