Re: perl 5.6.1-8 vs 5.6.1-7

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:49:59PM -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > I'm trying to install Perl onto a new system. "apt-get install perl" > won't work because perl-base is required and a conflict arises. That > is, "apt-get install perl-base" says the latest version is already > installed, but this

[Solved] Re: perl 5.6.1-8 vs 5.6.1-7

My problem was to have replaced "stable" with "testing" in sources.list, including the Debian security source. I then called apt-get update and then dist-upgrade. So, I changed "testing" back to "woody" for the security source, and was able to install Perl etc. But now I wonder: is it OK to ke

perl 5.6.1-8 vs 5.6.1-7

I'm trying to install Perl onto a new system. "apt-get install perl" won't work because perl-base is required and a conflict arises. That is, "apt-get install perl-base" says the latest version is already installed, but this appears to be version 5.6.1-7, and "apt-get install perl" wants vers