I mentioned in a previous mail about the slight problem I had with debconf when
I tried to install timidity. I've been following the thread about debconf, but
my problem is much different.
When I first updated timidity from unstable, it installed perl 5.004 and 5.005.
This completed properly, but there was something about changing some scripts? I
don't use perl, and know nothing about it, so I just left it be. debconf then
failed for some strange perl error? it said something about looking for a file
in perl. I don't have the details with me, the Linux box is a home. I tried it
again last night, with the new, fixed debconf package but I still get the error
about the missing perl file. timidity does work with the timidity and
timidity-patches installed and not configured due to the debconf problems, but I
would like to figure out what is wrong with perl and why it is stopping debconf
from configuring? I don't actually use perl, or debconf, and I'm not sure why
timidity should depend on it, but I am new to Linux. Please bear with me.
Other than that, I really like the apt-get package. Most of this is small AND
self-inflicted by using unstable, but I wanted xmms, sane 1.0.1 and timidity. I
can see why Corel chose Debian. and that decision make me feel real good about
my decision to use Debian when I first started playing with Linux about a year
ago. Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
John Gay
