-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm have a heck of a time with apt-get following a manual install of perl-5.6.1. Following is a transcript of the errors. I'm thinking the fastest way to correct the problem (been chasing it for 3 days now) would be to uninstall perl (both my manual install and force a purge on all .debs), and then:
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | grep perl \ | cut -s -f1 > file $ dpkg --set-selections < file $ apt-get update $ apt-get dist-upgrade Will do what I'm wanting to do (basically get me back to ground zero)? - ------------- transcript of errors --------------------- calypso:/home/stephen# apt-get install gnumeric Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libole2-0 samba The following NEW packages will be installed: gnumeric libole2-0 1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. 18 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 1583kB/2621kB of archives. After unpacking 4811kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main gnumeric 0.64-1 [1549kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main libole2-0 0.1.7-0.1 [34.2kB] Fetched 1583kB in 20s (77.3kB/s) debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}" Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3. ...propagated at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/base.pm line 62. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Iterator.pm line 5. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 8. Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 4. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4. ) -- aborting - -- ____) ,_) (-(__ -|- _ _ ____) | (/_\/(/_ ( _______________________________________________ | mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | linux : http://exitwound.org | | mozart : http://mozart.sourceforge.net | | buck : http://www.BuckOwensFan.com | _______________________________________________ | Miguel Cervantes wrote Donkey Hote. Milton | | wrote Paradise Lost, then his wife died and | | he wrote Paradise Regained. | _______________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6+qFJr9c0KwefYXMRArtiAJ9gwKom34ZnTPh61J6XS+86iMxdzQCfUXew UCpA72CQ1PC4fERYlU739cU= =pMP6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
