upgrading perl

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: upgrading perl
started by: rich

Posted by rich on June 28 2004,17:48

When trying to

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apt-get install perl-modules

I get the following error:

[CODE]perl-modules: Depends: perl (>=5.6.1-1_ but it is not going to be installed)[/CODE}

yet perl -V returns :perl 5.8.0

I thought this might be a generic debian 'thing' but I can't find anything on google relating to this.

Can anyone help?,

Posted by Grim on June 29 2004,01:59

What version of perl-base do you have?

dpkg --list | grep perl-base

Posted by rich on June 30 2004,22:56

perl-base 5.8.0-15

(i.e the standard one that comes with dsl). When I tired to remove it (because I couldn't work out how to upgrade a .deb!?!) it warmed me it was something serious and wanted to remove what I would consider was the 'base' system. I can paste the excat text if it helps? I used the following command:

'apt-get remove perl-base'

Posted by smurfnsanta on July 02 2004,13:06

I saw the same problem RH 9 -- install script screws up and assigns bad value to perl version no matter what you have installed. You've done your homework, so you could use apt-get to d/l the perl-modules package, and dpkg to force install. I think the command is something like:

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dpkg -i --force-configure-any <package name>.deb