On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:24:32PM +0000, Dale Scheetz was heard to say: > Well, in recovering my system, it became necessary to install dpkg-dev, > who's current version requires perl5. I chose to upgrade to perl-5.005, > but while installing perl-5.005-base I was forced to use > --auto-deconfigure on several packages that depended upon perl. When the > smoke cleared, after installing the complete perl-5.005 package, I could > not re-configure either libnet-perl, or mirror, both of which depend upon > perl.
Maybe you're using old versions of those packages? bluegreen:~> dlocate -s libnet-perl Package: libnet-perl Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: base Installed-Size: 231 Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.0606-3 Replaces: libnet Provides: libnet Depends: perl5, perl-5.005 | data-dumper