Anthony Towns wrote: > Huh? perl-5.005 is priority: important, and it doesn't seem to conflict > with anything else. How come it didn't get installed?
I dunno. I installed the base system from cd, went into dselect, selected nothing that wasn't automatically selected, and installed, then went on to install a few more packages peicmeal with apt. > Yick. Perhaps the alternative priorities could be arranged differently? That doesn't address the real problem, which is that one version of perl may be installed and satisfy the dependancy, while the alternatives system makes another one be used. -- see shy jo
