On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > > 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.
okay, i marked perl and perl-base as 'hold', then did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade with the same results. i'm stumped. firestarter:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: perl: Depends: perl-modules (= 5.6.1-4) but 5.6.1-5 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. firestarter:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: perl perl-base The following held packages will be changed: perl 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 359 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 1637kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. -- ____) ,_) ,_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ____) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_, _______________________________________________ | http://www.exitwound.org : hard to find | _______________________________________________ | You have been selected for a secret mission. | _______________________________________________
