Andrew Martin Adrian Cater writes:
> I have the situation where I have Perl 5.005 on the system - apt won't
> update packages properly and other things including netbase are flaky.
A symlink kluge is to do this:
cd /usr/local/lib
mv site_perl site_perl.SAVE
ln -s /usr/lib/perl5 site_perl
Remember to undo that later when things are stable.
But I ended up reverting to an earlier version of Perl. In fact, I
think Perl 5.005 is no longer available on Debian -- it got pushed
back to a later release. Since I couldn't find a way to get dselect
or apt to do this, I did it using dpkg:
Get perl-base_5.004.04-6.deb from
http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/base/.
Run "dpkg -i ..." on that.
Do the same for perl_5.004.04-6.deb from
http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/interpreters/
Do the same for the perl-suid package. And, I suppose, for
any other perl-based packages that you have that have reverted
to versions based on Perl 5.004.
The exact package-version numbers may be different now, but you get
the idea.
--
Fred Yankowski
