I recently wanted to install perlmagick, which depends on an older version of perl-api than the one currently on my system.
This can be remedied by specifying which branch of perl I want (ie, perl/testing), however, this causes all the packages which depend on my current version of perl-spi to be removed. My question is, does there exist a way to tell apt to downgrade a package, and attempt to downgrade dependant packages instead of removing them? here are the specifics of my situation: (pts/12)root@marsala:~$ apt-get install perlmagick Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: perlmagick: Depends: perlapi-5.6.1 (pts/12)root@marsala:~$ apt-get -f install perlmagick (same thing...) (pts/12)root@marsala:~$ apt-get install perl/testing Selected version 5.6.1-7 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.1-7) but 5.8.0-15 is to be installed (pts/12)root@marsala:~$ apt-get install -t testing perl Sorry, perl is already the newest version. This is what finally worked: (pts/12)root@marsala:~$ apt-get install perl/testing perl-base/testing perl-modu les/testing perl-doc/testing docbook-utils/testing jadetex/testing tetex-extra/t esting fttools/testing libft-perl/testing libjcode-pm-perl/testing perl-tk/testi ng Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Selected version 5.6.1-7 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl Selected version 5.6.1-7 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl-base Selected version 5.6.1-7 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl-modules Selected version 5.6.1-7 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl-doc Selected version 0.6.12-3 (Debian:unstable) for docbook-utils Selected version 3.12-2 (Debian:unstable, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for jadetex Sorry, jadetex is already the newest version. Selected version 1.0.2+20011202-3 (Debian:testing) for tetex-extra Selected version 1.2-13 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for fttools Selected version 1.2-13 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for libft-perl Selected version 0.73-1 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for libjcode-pm-p erl Selected version 1:800.024-1 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl-tk The following packages will be DOWNGRADED fttools libft-perl libjcode-pm-perl perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules perl-tk tetex-extra 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 downgraded, 0 to remove and 300 not u pgraded. Need to get 15.4MB/19.3MB of archives. After unpacking 15.2MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
