On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:28:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > (I originally posted this message in the debian newsgroup, but > figured a lot of people would read the list and not the group, so I'm > reposting here. Sorry for all of you who read this twice.) > > Using slink, I'm trying to install kernel-package v. 6.21. My problem > is that dselect will not let me install it, saying that it depends on the > perl5 package. > > Perl *is* installed (Perl 5.004.04-7), but the package name in the list is > "perl", not "perl5". >
Yet another victim of the Great Perl Upgrade (TM) :-) Grab the source to kernel-package (apt-get source kernel-package works, but I can't remember if that feature is in the slink release of APT. If not, grab the .dsc, .diff.gz, and .tar.gz from your nearest Debian mirror) Edit the debian/control file and change the perl5 depends to 'perl'. Type "debian/rules binary" and install the resulting package. Learning how to rebuild a Debian package from source can be a great asset, especially if you intend to use potato packages (where some of the core system libraries, like libc and libstdc++ have been upgraded) with slink. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
