Well, in recovering my system, it became necessary to install dpkg-dev, who's current version requires perl5. I chose to upgrade to perl-5.005, but while installing perl-5.005-base I was forced to use --auto-deconfigure on several packages that depended upon perl. When the smoke cleared, after installing the complete perl-5.005 package, I could not re-configure either libnet-perl, or mirror, both of which depend upon perl.
After looking over things, both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 replace perl and provide perl5, but neither of them provide perl! Shouldn't perl-5.005 provide perl? Or should mirror depend upon perl5? If both of these packages have the correct dependencies, where do I get a version of perl that provides perl, that will install beside perl-5.005? Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- See www.linuxpress.com for more details _-_-_-_-_-_-_-