On 7 Mar 1997, Guy Maor wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes: > > > Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and > > dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken. > > io was merged into perl and is now obsolete. Remove io and reinstall > perl. > > > bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory. > > > > This is odd since it's finding the correct program and the path for it but > > is saying it can't find it. Spook! I've looksed in /usr/sbin and > > start-stop-daemon is definitly in there. > > This actually means that bash couldn't find the interpreter - > /usr/bin/perl. Did you remove perl completely? That would be bad.
Here I went and did the same thing. I installed from the unstable distribution, hoping to circumvent the dependency problems in the stable version that result in dpkg-ftp being deleted. Well, dpkg-ftp is still around, but perl is gone. Somehow, the whole modutils package disappeared, too. I remember it saying something like 'could not locate modutils package' or something to that effect in dselect. I thought it was just as well since it was already installed, though. So why would it have deleted them? And perl? -=John Doggett=->
