Hi, I recently had an issue installing php-nuke on my web-site, when installing it came up with an error relating to MySql , so me thinking I would be smart added the lines in the sources.list to access the "testing" packages, updated the available file & installed the latest MySQL in testing. Lo & behold this didn't correct the issue. So I thought I'd simply remove it, comment out the testing lines in my sources.list, update & then re-install the version from stable. Bad move. Not only did MySQL remove itself, it took out Apache, Perl, Proftpd, PHP,etc. basically left me with a bare box. Ok, I thought & tried to re-install these using apt, now all I get are errors stating that Perl needs to be installed before I can install anything else, yet when trying to install Perl I get the following error;
apt-get install perl-5.004 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: perl-5.004: Depends: perl-5.004-base (= 5.004.05-6) but 6.3 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages I tried to install perl-5.004-base, but it tells me it is already the latest version? Can someone advise on a quick solution (I can pull them down from source, compile,etc., but I need the server back up asap, asignment due). I would hate to have the RH box I have acting as a webserver, it is only for testing other distro's & isn't really powerful enough to cope with the rigours of a web server. Is there something I missed? Is there someway to manually edit the list of installed packages to kick it into re-installing perl (& what is the filename of said file?)? Regards, Craig.
