debconf broken - How to repair ?

2005-07-08 Thread Uwe Dippel
Dunno if it has to do with the earlier problem, but now debconf is broken here: # apt-get install alien Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done alien is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or remove

Re: debconf broken

2002-06-07 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:22:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > Undefined subroutine &Getopt::Long::Configure called at > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 73. > > It would appear that you have a broken perl installation somehow. > Confirm with: > > perl -we 'use s

Re: debconf broken

2002-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Ross Vandegrift wrote: > After the dist-upgrade finished, it left debconf utterly broken. I > installed dialog and went to turn on the dialog interface with > "dpkg-reconfigure debconf". debconf now just says: > > Undefined subroutine &Getopt::Long::Configure called at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf

debconf broken

2002-06-07 Thread Ross Vandegrift
I had a potato box lying around that was running a reasonably old revision of potato. I powered it up, and went about upgrading it, first to the latest potato, and then on to testing. After apt-get upgrade to testing, things on the box were ok. I then did apt-get dist-upgrade to clean up the las