Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-04-03 Thread Christian Eyre
Hi Dean, thanks for the help. I thought you might be interested in the solution (not my own). 1. installed suidmanager (after looking over dpkg -l perl*) 2. vi /var/lib/dpkg/info/perl-5.004-suid.*rm 3. hash out set -e from script set -e is [apparently] used to kill the post install removal prog

Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-29 Thread destruss
Hello again: I'm out of ideas. The time I was in a loop ( I upgraded a package which wiped out another necessary package for installing packages and since that package wasn't on my system it couldn't install any other packages, even the package that was necessary.) I went to geocrawler and did a s

Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-28 Thread Christian Eyre
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:57:25AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Christian: > I take you tried : > apt-get -f install > and it continued to give the loop? Hi, I had a play around with dpkg -i --force-overwrite perl-suid_5.6.0-21_i386.deb output: -- dpkg: considering removing perl-5.

Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-28 Thread destruss
Hi Christian: I take you tried : apt-get -f install and it continued to give the loop? Does throwing some -v give any more clues? Can you reinstall perl-5.004-suid to get rid of the dependencies error? HTHDean > the post-removal script fails with the command dpkg --purge > perl-5.004-suid

Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-28 Thread Christian Eyre
>Hi Christian: > Since the problem is with pert-*-suid can you >rm that first? HTH Dean Hi Dean, the post-removal script fails with the command dpkg --purge perl-5.004-suid, andunmet dependencies lead apt-get remove perl-5.004-suid to fail: apt-get remove perl-5.004-suid You might want to

Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-28 Thread destruss
Hi Christian: Since the problem is with pert-*-suid can you rm that first? HTH Dean On 28 Mar 2001, at 15:23, Christian Eyre wrote: > Hi, > has anyone had luck with this sort of problem. I have tried to use dpkg -i on > the individual packages, but no luck. The perl perl-5.004-suid keeps g