perl comes with your Mandrake distribution, just load the rpm. If not
get an rpm from CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archives Network) at
http://www.perl.com/CPAN
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lee Wilson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 6:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] amd problem de-mystified
>
>
> Well, it appears that since I did the updates, a new security
> update was added a
> linux-mandrake.com, namely am-utils because of a potential
> buffer-overflow
> exploit. So, I guess someone tried (or succeeded) in hacking
> me. Joy, I get to
> re-install. I'm really looking forward to that after I just
> got all my config
> done from the original install a week or so ago. Sheesh. I
> hate hackers.
>
> Until I can do that, however, I'd like to upgrade the
> am-utils package.
> However, when I try, I get a failed dependency:
>
> # rpm -U am-utils-6.0.1s11-1mdk_586.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> /usr/bin/perl5 is needed by am-utils-6.0.1s11-1mdk
>
> This installation is only a week or two old -- why would it
> be asking for
> something that isn't on my system? Any ideas where I can
> find this package? I
> have perl-5.00503-3mdk already on the system (the perl that
> came with Mandrake
> 6.0). What is it asking for if not that? I've tried
> creating a link and/or a
> directory in that spot, but that doesn't seem to work.
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