William, Firstly, thank yo for your reply.
William Leese wrote: > On Monday 05 February 2001 16:15, James Sinnamon wrote: > > 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 > <snip> > > > > ...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 > > I ran into the same problem twice and ended-up reinstalling woody. This was > mentioned earlier on this list, i believe the solution was to softlink your > currently installed perl-5.x version with /usr/bin/perl, if not you can check > the archives. I have manged to get around the problem by 'manually' installing (using dpkg -i <packagname.deb>), the following perl related *.deb files, which I obtained through http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages : libc6_2.2.1-1_i386.deb libdb2_2.7.7-2.2.deb libgdbmg1_1.7.3-27_i386.deb perl-5.6_5.6.0-6.2_i386.deb perl-5.6-base_5.6.0-6.2_i386.deb had already been installed when the base system was installed. My understanding of the problem is that a few perl modules essential for the running of apt-get (or debconf(?)) had been ommitted from perl-5.6-base_5.6.0-6.2_i386.deb . The only remedy was to 'manually' install the extra (non-base) perl package, which included the necessary modules, (and files upon which it depended) using dpkg, rather than apt-get. Once this is done, apt-get becomes workable again, and you can install whatever you please using apt-get instead of having to use dpkg directly on each individual package. (My motivation for installing 'unstable' was that I needed to run dia-0.86, rather than dia-0.84, which is all that is availaible on potato and woody, and it's working fine now). Hope this helps. Thanks again, James > > William > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350
