Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction (new errors)

2000-12-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
So, today apt updated debconf, and the errors changed: Setting up debconf (0.5.34) ... Use of reserved word "our" is deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19. Bareword "our" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19. Unquoted string "our"

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-12-06 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:39:40PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: :Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: :> the problem is debconf, which has an undeclared dependency on perl5.6, : :Package: debconf :Depends: perl-5.6, perl-5.6-base, fileutils (>= 4.0-5), libapt-pkg2.7, libc6 (>= 2.1.97), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 :

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-12-06 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:56:48AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Both of those (perl-5.6 and perl-5.6-base are installed. By removing a large > portion of my X system I reduced the > errors to just those relavent to debconf: > > Setting up debconf (0.5.32) ... > Data::Dumper object version 2.10

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-12-06 Thread Aaron Solochek
Both of those (perl-5.6 and perl-5.6-base are installed. By removing a large portion of my X system I reduced the errors to just those relavent to debconf: Setting up debconf (0.5.32) ... Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linu

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > the problem is debconf, which has an undeclared dependency on perl5.6, Package: debconf Depends: perl-5.6, perl-5.6-base, fileutils (>= 4.0-5), libapt-pkg2.7, libc6 (>= 2.1.97), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 ^^^ -- see shy jo

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, the problem is debconf, which has an undeclared dependency on perl5.6, if you get that to configure the rest will too. At least that's what did it for me (and a few other folks too I think). try: update-alternatives --config perl and see that perl5.6 is set tobe the default version, if/when

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-11-29 Thread Aaron Solochek
That seemed to install, but it didn't correct the problems with the other packages in dselect. Many packages install just fine, but those 12: debconf bsdmainutils adduser setserial ifupdown pidentd gmc xbase-clients xserver-common xserver-common-v3 xserver-svga xserver-xfree86 still

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-11-29 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
hi, spent a few days with that one: apt-get install perl5.6 -Jon

ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-11-29 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yes... problems with woody. An upgrade a little while ago caused dselect to be upset. The current errors are reproduced below. Anyone run into this? have you figured out how to fix it, or is this one of those times where I should just wait and eventually dselect will sort itsself out? Please C