apt-get install perl/testing or apt-get install perl-base/testing did the trick. Now debconf is happy, I can get my system back to some kind of stability.
Thanks, Brendan Simon. Michel Dänzer wrote: > Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > > A few weeks, I did an "apt-get upgrade" on my Titanium and now my system > > wont upgrade many packages. I'm using testing and unstable with testing > > being the default. > > > > apt-get returns all sorts of errors and I think it is a perl script > > which is part of debconf. I have searched the archives but have found > > no answer. One person suggested reinstalling debconf. I did an upgrade > > but it was already the latest. I stupidly tried removing debconf, which > > removed *lots* of other packages due to dependencies, but I thought I'd > > be able to restore them all as they were in the apt cache. How wrong I > > was :( > > > > I've tried reinstalling debconf/unstable debconf/testing and even tried > > debconf/stable. It seems that debconf-tiny has no problems but a lot of > > the packages I use require debconf. > > > > I've now lost my GNOME desktop and have to use virtual consoles for now. > > There must be many others seeing similar problems but there's not much > > on the mailing lists. > > How can I get back on track ?? > > I'm also running testing/unstable but don't suffer from this problem. > > ii debconf 0.9.41 Debian configuration management system > > and as it seems to be perl related, here's the output of dpkg -l|grep perl > > ii libperl5.6 5.6.0-21 Shared Perl library. > ii libterm-stool- 0.26 Slang widget toolkit for perl > ii perl 5.6.0-21 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report > ii perl-base 5.6.0-21 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. > ii perl-modules 5.6.0-21 Core Perl modules. > > Hope this helps > > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer > CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
