Hi! I tried to install (upgrade) perl on my Debian Potato. What happened, was shocking to me.
What was the problem? Why did install start such removing mayhem? I have used both potato and woody as sources for different packages. I had just commented woody out from /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get updated. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - root:~# apt-get install perl Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: auctex debconf eperl esound esound-common gnome-bin gnome-card-games gnome-guile gnome-print gnumeric gnuplot gtop html2ps libcompress-zlib-perl libcurses-perl libesd0 libglade-gnome0 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtk-perl libguilegtk0 libhtml-parser-perl libmime-base64-perl libpgperl libsdl1.0 libsmpeg0 libterm-readkey-perl libtime-hires-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl lynx mon perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-tk perlmagick perlmenu smpeg-gtv The following NEW packages will be installed: perl 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 42 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 904B of archives. After unpacking 36.5MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org potato/main perl 5.004.05-2 [904B] Fetched 904B in 0s (5919B/s) (Reading database ... 51929 files and directories currently installed.) Removing acct ... Stopping process accounting: done. dpkg - warning: while removing acct, directory `/var/account' not empty so not r emoved. Removing auctex ... remove/auctex: Removing for emacs19... done. remove/auctex: Removing for emacs20... done. ^CE: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I terminated the process with ctrl-C. I would be thankful, if somebody told what was wrong. I suspect that upgrading perl should not require removing e.g. gnome-bin. -- ___________________________________________________________________ Iiro A K Jantunen http://www.hut.fi/u/ijantune [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMT 12 K 135 +358 400 576492 (mobile) FIN-02150 ESPOO ____ "Kuusi miljoonaa Kalevalan lukijaa ei voi olla väärässä!" ____
