I decied to reinstall Hurd, because my installation was pretty dated. Marcus recommended that I use the tarball and then apt-get.
It worked out ok once I got apt going. Except when I tried to install the packages that I need for development. Turns out that there is one single package in the archive that depends on libc0.2 (>= 2.2.3-1) -- html2text. Unfortunately debhelper depends on html2text. And since libc0.2_2.2.3 is not installable (it's not in the archive or incoming), the problems just start snowballing from there. Like they say, a spoonful of dirt ruins a whole barrel of honey, or whaterver your translation is. Result is something like, it's impossible to install dpkg-dev, autoconf, automake, etc. Other problems is that the new version of perl packages has not been uploaded yet. The perl*_all.deb packages are of a higher version then the _hurd-i386.deb packages and thus cause some problems (namely perl-modules). Another thing is that pfinet had to be killed and restarted periodically, but I think that's a known problem. Igor
