I have a system with broken perl installation, the output of apt-get -s install perl is attached below. It's kinda scary, isn't it...?
The installed perl (according to dpkg) is perl-5.005, why did I get "perl-5.004" to be installed? BTW, I installed the machine using potato floppies, then I changed the sources.list to point to frozen. I recall that I didn't do "apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade", just "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade." Do I have to "dist-upgrade" to upgrade potato to frozen? Or, actually the meaning should be the opposite; potato to frozen is downgrading. Or, it could be just about time; OK potato, but potato when? Oki ps: sorry about the not so correct English. ============ Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following extra packages will be installed: gdk-imlib1 gnome-libs-data libart2 libopenldap-runtime perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.004-doc postgresql-client The following packages will be REMOVED: debconf esound esound-common gmc gnome-bin gnome-core gnudip horde imp libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libdigest-md5-perl libesd-alsa0 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 mysql-client mysql-server perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base snort The following NEW packages will be installed: perl perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.004-doc postgresql-client 4 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 23 to remove and 131 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Remv imp Remv gnudip Remv horde Remv mysql-server Remv mysql-client Inst perl-5.004-base [perl-5.005 on perl-base] Remv gmc Remv libgnorba27 [gnome-bin ] Remv gnome-core [gnome-bin ] Remv libgnome32 [gnome-bin ] Remv libgnomesupport0 [gnome-bin ] Remv libgnomeui32 [gnome-bin ] Remv gnome-bin [libgnorbagtk0 ] Remv libgnorbagtk0
