On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > Do you mean that installing any package fails because apt-get first > tries to install perl and perl-base and stops at that point? If that is > the case, you may want to put these packages on hold, and then run > apt-get again to install the other packages.
yes, that is what i mean. how do i put these packages on hold? -- ____) ,_) ,_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ____) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_, _______________________________________________ | http://www.exitwound.org : hard to find | _______________________________________________ | "Ada is PL/I trying to be Smalltalk. -- | | Codoso diBlini | _______________________________________________