On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:58:55AM -0800, Dave Scott wrote: > Ok, I tried to install SquirrelMail but didn't have too much luck. > > All I got were failed dependencies left and right. I had to manually > download a bunch of them. > > I am stuck now with SquirrelMail telling me that I don't have Perl > installed, even though I do. I'm guessing I need the newer version of > Perl though since I am using the .deb version of SquirrelMail. > > I try to install Perl 5.6.1-7 but get all kinds of conflicts with Perl > 5.005 > > Plus it tells me I need the Libc6, the newer one and that gives me a > full page of conflicts.
I assume you have a potato installation because of all the dependency problems you are running into. > > Anyone know what I should do to get out of this mess. > > Is it normal to have to update half of your packages to Testing packages > to get SquirrelMail installed? Starting from potato, yes. If you really want to install squirrelmail from testing consider upgrading. I find testing/woody very stable. Looking at squirrelmail dependencies, I don't see a lot of testing version numbers listed. You could try installing squirrelmail source and compiling it yourself. -- Jerome
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