Hi all, I had the same issue. I was helping a friend update his friend from Squeeze to Sid and hit across the same issue. There were something like 1200+ packages which needed to be updated.
While just doing apt-get and aptitude could have been good enough its possible that some packages could get removed/deleted/purged. We had some time on our hands so we decided to go via taking bundles of packages. Somewhere half-way down the road we tried to tackle perl and came across this :- $ sudo apt-get install perl [sudo] password for shirish: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: irssi libapt-pkg-perl libcairo-perl libclass-isa-perl libfont-freetype-perl libgadu3 libglib-perl libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgtk2-perl libhtml-parser-perl liblist-moreutils-perl liblocale-gettext-perl libnet-dbus-perl libpango-perl libperl5.12 libpod-plainer-perl libpurple0 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libswitch-perl libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libuuid-perl libxml-parser-perl perl-base perl-modules perlmagick pidgin pidgin-data Suggested packages: irssi-scripts libgtk2-perl-doc libdata-dump-perl tcl8.5 tk8.5snmp-mibs-downloader libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl make imagemagick-doc The following packages will be REMOVED: libperl5.10 The following NEW packages will be installed: libclass-isa-perl libgadu3 libperl5.12 libpod-plainer-perl libswitch-perl The following packages will be upgraded: irssi libapt-pkg-perl libcairo-perl libfont-freetype-perl libglib-perl libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgtk2-perl libhtml-parser-perl liblist-moreutils-perl liblocale-gettext-perl libnet-dbus-perl libpango-perl libpurple0 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libuuid-perl libxml-parser-perl perl perl-base perl-modules perlmagick pidgin pidgin-data 27 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 918 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/30.4 MB of archives. After this operation, 13.1 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'perl'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details I googled a bit and came across a bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=188161 but could not understand the workaround given there. I also saw the debian bts and saw a similar bug-report of a gentleman http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636048 the curious part was that the maintainer hadn't closed the bug. Now I am not really a man reader and a casual reading of the manpage referred did not tell me the solution. The solution came by itself way later . I think it was only in the last 50-100 updates left that it upgraded to perl 5.12 without complaining. I am still not sure what the issue is/was. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
