Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-07 Thread Ben Monnahan
Make that /usr/bin/perl On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 22:30:49 Ben Monnahan wrote: > dpkg-preconfigure is looking for /usr/sbin/perl. I created a symlink > there > to the new perl. I'm not sure if this is the proper thing to do but it > worked for me. > > Ben > > > On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:21:04 Gordon

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-07 Thread Ben Monnahan
dpkg-preconfigure is looking for /usr/sbin/perl. I created a symlink there to the new perl. I'm not sure if this is the proper thing to do but it worked for me. Ben On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:21:04 Gordon Sadler wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:30:06AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > It seem

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Gordon Sadler
I do beleive this has fixed it. Thank you. Here's what I 'think' led to this. From another response from Jason he led me to beleive debconf had been uninstalled, as I was tracking his apt and the debconf available there (klecker.debian.org/~jgg /apt) It now appears to my system that the debconf a

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Manually link /usr/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl-5.6; repeat; update-alternatives --auto perl; /var/lib/dpkg/info/perl-5.6-base.postinst configure 5.6-1 Gordon Sadler wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:19:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Gordon Sadler wrote: > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > >

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Gordon Sadler wrote: > I followed this advice and upgraded to 1.7.1 just a few minutes ago, however > I am still receiving this error below. Looks like you removed debconf.. Put it back, by hand! Jason

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:19:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Gordon Sadler wrote: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. > > 6 packages not fully installed or removed. > > Need to get 0B of a

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Gordon Sadler wrote: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. > 6 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:30:06AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > It seems I made a `slight' mistake in dpkg 1.7.0 which broke > update-alternatives. Combined with a perl upgrade that can have some > nasty effects. I fixed this in dpkg 1.7.1, and I strongly advise > everyone to immediately upgrad

Re: dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > It seems I made a `slight' mistake in dpkg 1.7.0 which broke > update-alternatives. Combined with a perl upgrade that can have some > nasty effects. I fixed this in dpkg 1.7.1, and I strongly advise > everyone to immediately upgrade to that version if

dpkg 1.7.0 warning

2000-11-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
It seems I made a `slight' mistake in dpkg 1.7.0 which broke update-alternatives. Combined with a perl upgrade that can have some nasty effects. I fixed this in dpkg 1.7.1, and I strongly advise everyone to immediately upgrade to that version if you have 1.7.0 installed. You can grab it from http