said Holger Mense, on Feb 2,
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Geordie Birch wrote: > > > > > apt-get dist-upgrade from woody to sid has left my system with a bunch of > > packages that are broken and unremoveable; no combination of apt-get -f > [...] > > # apt-get -fuy dist-upgrade > [...] > > Preparing to replace groff 1.16-3 (using .../groff_1.16-3.2_i386.deb) > > ... Unpacking replacement groff ... Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC > > (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux > > /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/warnings/register.pm > > line 3. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/vars.pm > > line 11. > [...] > > I guess your perl setup is broken. Do an apt-get install perl-5.6-base, > than apt-get install debconf. After that all your problems should be > solved. > yeah - apt-get install perl-5.6 solved all my problems (perl-5.6-base and debconf were already installed and unremoveable.) question: why didn't perl-5.6 come with apt-get dist-upgrade (i was able to duplicate this weirdness 4 times.) thanks, geordie.
