Dear Debian users, I am stumped trying to install 'unstable/sid'.. When I run, for example, 'apt-get install debconf', I get error messages similar to the folllowing:
Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, task-x-window-system-core is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 9 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up debconf (0.5.55) ... Can't locate Fcntl.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/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. ...etc. I get similar messages, alos when I try to install other packages like task-x-window-system-base ... according to some messages in the archives, this may be bug# 81485. When I read through the archives, one solution suggested was to install perl-5.6 (or was it perll-5.6-base? couldn't find perl-5.6). When I run apt-get perl-5.6, the same messages came up so I seem to be in a catch 22 situation. I would be grateful if anyone could show me where there is information about a workaround that would get me around this problem so that I could start to build my 'unstable' system. TIA James -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350
