Hi, I downloaded Hamm last night from fp.mi.us.debian.org and I got quite a lot of package download problems. Packages that seem to have moved between the ime I selected them and the time I downloaded them.
Anyway, I have a lot of package problems, 58 packages are in the state iU, i.e. installed but not configured. I could at least identify the following problems: * the first problem has to do with perl. I have the package perl-base installed but apache which depends on 'perl' claims that perl is not installed. And in fact 'perl-base' does not provide 'perl'. But it 'Replaces: perl', 'Suggests: perl' and 'Conflicts: perl (<< 5.004.04-2)'. I tried to find another package that would provide 'perl' but did not find any. To me it looks like there is a screw-up in the package dependencies/information. perl-base 5.004.04-6 apache 1.3b6-3 * ddd-smotif depends on 'libg++27'. Fair enough. I installed the package 'libg++27' (Opt oldlibs libg++27). But this package provides 'libg++' not the one I expected. I could not find anything that ould povide 'libg++27'. Packages depending on 'libg++27' staroffice3 3.1-8 rvplayer 1:5.0-2 ddd-dmotif 2.2.3-2 libg++2.8-dev 2.90.29-0.3 ddd-smotif 2.2.3-2 circus 0.43-1 libg++27-altdev 2.7.2.1-14.4 netscape4 4.0-12 Related packages: libg++272-dev 2.7.2.8-0.1 provides libg++-dev libg++2.8 2.90.29-0.3 provides libg++ libg++2.8-dev 2.90.29-0.3 provides libg++-dev libg++27 2.7.2.1-14.4 provides libg++ libg++272-dbg 2.7.2.8-0.1 provides libg++272 * I'm not sure apache should depend on perl. I know we have apache installed on a Solaris machine were there is no perl. Sometimes when doing a first install it feels like every other package requires some other package that you (I) have not yet installed (and don't really want to install but...). This is typically things like perl, perl extensions, tcl, tk... * These problems seem to have blocked the installation of tcl8.0, tk8.0 which I could 'dpkg --configure' manually without problem. Why ? -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]