Today I got to Chapter 7 in the Catalyst Tutorial. In there, I found the
following:
Note: If you are following along in Debian 6 or Ubuntu, you will need to
install the perl-doc package to use the perldoc command. Use 'sudo
aptitude install perl-doc' to do that.
Well, though that's late in the tutorial to point that out, it would be
great if it worked. But it did not:
catalyst@catalyst:~/MyApp$ sudo aptitude install perl-doc
No candidate version found for perl-doc
No candidate version found for perl-doc
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Also, since there is a suggestion below for "checking my configured
sources", here is the output from the suggested grep command:
root@catalyst:/home/catalyst/MyApp# grep -Ev '^(#| )' /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main
The blank lines are part of the grep output. Can anyone point me to what
I have to change to get perldoc working?
On 6/11/2012 2:19 PM, Kamen Naydenov wrote:
Hi John
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:08 PM, John Deighan<john.deig...@gmail.com> wrote:
It is, in fact, a Debian linux system. That's not a specific system I'm
familiar with. And I did try following the instructions. It said that I
needed to install perl-doc, so I tried the obvious:
install perl-doc
which, of course, did not work. I knew nothing about apt-get and shouldn't
be expected to. Now, here's more bad news. I tried using apt-get and here's
what I got back:
root@catalyst:/home/catalyst/MyApp# apt-get install perl-doc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package perl-doc is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
perl
E: Package 'perl-doc' has no installation candidate
You need to have properly configured sources.
To check your sources run this command:
grep -Ev '^(#| )' /etc/apt/sources.list
On my stable Debian server output is:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
If you don't hvae similar output you will need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list
May be with command:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
You can copy and paste lines from output shown above at the bottom of
file, than save and exit gedit;
After this run following commands:
sud
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