You need to put liblocal-gettext-perl on hold. Bob
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 08:03:35PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > > I tried to do a dselect update on my potato box today. New Perl debs caused > > a > > lot of trouble. > > Yeah, the dependancies aren't all worked out yet... That's why potato is > called 'unstable'. > > > After dselect saw the new Perl's it wanted to remove A LOT of > > (important) packages so I had to say no to the upgrade. Then I tried > > to freeze the Perl upgrade to be able to do the other avaialble > > upgrades, but no go. whatever I do dselect wants to do major changes > > to my system. Some Perl packages described as "fake" confuse me, and I > > have given up using dselect at all right now since whatever I try to > > do means all these packages will be removed and I am not able to > > freeze the old Perl with ='s in a way that leaves my installation > > intact. > > What you have to do is look at the dependancies and find out which package > wants Perl 5.005. Then, put that package on hold until things become sane > again ;) > > The best way to do this is to push 'R' right away on the conflict screen > to restore the old status, then go down to the "perl-5.005" line and look > for the line "foo depends on perl-5.005". Put package "foo" on hold (you > may have to do this two or three times, if there's more that one package > that needs 5.005 *sigh*) > > At the moment, i have 4 on hold: libgtk-perl, perl-tk, perlmagick, and > pdl. There may be others that i don't have installed. > > > Should I wait until other packages "catch up" with the new Perl > > installation? > > Good idea, some of the ones that would be removed are rather useful... > > > If I have a lot of packages marked for removal right now. I guess I > > will have to go through it all and mark them installed again also? > > If you go to the line "--- Up to date installed packages ---" and tell > dselect to install that, it will mark all of them at once, so you don't > have to go through manually and do it. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
