shock wrote:
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?
I usually do it this way:
As root, run dselect. When you get the menu, do an [U]pdate. Then do
[S]elect and search for the perl and perl-base packages. When the
package name is high-lighted, type "=". You can then quit dselect and
try running apt-get again.
When you want to remove the hold, run deselect again and type "+" when
the package name is high-lighted.
If it has been a while since you did an upgrade, you may want to
"apt-get dist-upgrade" instead of just upgrade.
I hope this helps.
--
Jerome
