Re: Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??
See the list of packages on the Debian packages page, searching for perl. There is a fake package that allows you to upgrade; I believe you will have upgrade problems if you do not install the fake perl package first. I believe it is called perl-base. It is called perl_5.004.05-2.deb Stef
Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??
I upgraded to potato, hoping to get access to all the fine stuff in the distro, but find I am stuck with Perl 5.004. Packages I want to install want 5.005. I want Perl 5.005. Why is it that apt left 5.004 behind? Is the reason logged somewhere? Is there something I missed that might do the upgrade? Do I have to ditch some packages that depend on 5.004? Why would dist-upgrade miss this? Thanks for info! -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth). Which is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value. 9:06pm up 21:17, 8 users, load average: 1.02, 1.03, 1.00
Re: Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??
William Burrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to potato, hoping to get access to all the fine stuff in the distro, but find I am stuck with Perl 5.004. Packages I want to install want 5.005. I want Perl 5.005. Why is it that apt left 5.004 behind? Is the reason logged somewhere? Is there something I missed that might do the upgrade? Do I have to ditch some packages that depend on 5.004? Why would dist-upgrade miss this? Perl has apparently been a continuing problem with potato. I just installed potato on a fresh laptop using the floppies and the Internet. Apt stopped working because debconf's installation script expects Perl 5.005 to be installed, but the installer actually sets up 5.004. Luckily I happen to be computer-savvy enough to upgrade manually using dselect (which I recommend to you) but it was annoying and wasted a lot of my time. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net
Re: Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??
*- On 28 Dec, William Burrow wrote about Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind?? I upgraded to potato, hoping to get access to all the fine stuff in the distro, but find I am stuck with Perl 5.004. Packages I want to install want 5.005. I want Perl 5.005. Why is it that apt left 5.004 behind? Is the reason logged somewhere? Is there something I missed that might do the upgrade? Do I have to ditch some packages that depend on 5.004? Why would dist-upgrade miss this? Thanks for info! Perl 5.005 and Perl 5.004 are significantly different in their compatibility that it was decided to make two independent packages of the two that can coexist on the system. You can install the perl-5.005 package and dselect should pull in the other needed packages. After that is installed try removing the perl-5.004 packages and see if anything depends on them. They both provide perl5-base so perl-5.005 should satisfy the needs of packages that perl-5.004 was satisfying. I no longer have any perl-5.004 packages on my potato system and don't have any problems. Search the debian-perl, debian-devel and debian-policy archives from earlier this year(May onward) for all the discussion. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:01:32PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: Perl 5.005 and Perl 5.004 are significantly different in their compatibility that it was decided to make two independent packages of the two that can coexist on the system. You can install the perl-5.005 I tried using dpkg to install perl 5.005, but it complained there was a conflict with the already installed 5.004 package. I am attempting to set up enough to get dselect to work, maybe it will do something. -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth). Which is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value. 1:24am up 1 day, 1:35, 8 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
Re: Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??
On 29-Dec-1999 William Burrow wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:01:32PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: Perl 5.005 and Perl 5.004 are significantly different in their compatibility that it was decided to make two independent packages of the two that can coexist on the system. You can install the perl-5.005 I tried using dpkg to install perl 5.005, but it complained there was a conflict with the already installed 5.004 package. I am attempting to set up enough to get dselect to work, maybe it will do something. See the list of packages on the Debian packages page, searching for perl. There is a fake package that allows you to upgrade; I believe you will have upgrade problems if you do not install the fake perl package first. I believe it is called perl-base. -- Andrew *who just wrestled with a similar problem*
