On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 21:07:24 +0100 Alexander LIST ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
raz.ac.at) wrote:
> I just tried to upgrade to Debian 1.2. Unfortunately, dpkg has the
> following problem:
>
> # dselect
> dpkg: cannot see how to satisfy pre-dependency:
> perl pre-depends on libdl1
> dpkg: cannot satisfy pre-dependencies for perl (wanted due to perl)
>
> installation script returned error exit status 1.
>
> When I looked into /lib, I found:
>
> # ls -l /lib/libdl*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 15 03:38 /lib/libdl.so ->
> libdl.so.1.7.14
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 15 03:38 /lib/libdl.so.1 ->
> libdl.so.1.7.14
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6991 Apr 12 1996
> /lib/libdl.so.1.7.14
>
>
> So what's wrong? I have PERL installed, I have the lib installed.
The package might have been unpackaed, and not configured yet. Try to
reinstall by hand libdl:
dpkg -i <path>/libdl<version>.deb
> BTW is there a way to tell dpkg to check installed packages and report
> "broken" installations, missing files etc?
Yes. Try
dpkg -C
for a report of bad packages. Try
dpkg -s <package>
for a complete description of the package, including dependencies, maintainer,
etc... Try
dpkg -l <shell glob pattern>...
for a short description of the status and versions of the packages regeular
expression(s) given on the command line. More generally, try
man dpkg
for everything related to the packaging system :-)
Phil.
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