On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:25:21PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: > > > > > On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl > > > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. > > > > Yes! But do you know where to get these packages nowadays! In other > > words does anyone know of a bo packages archive! > > > > I think Ana will appreciate that! > I think this may be a problem that all Debian users need to deal with. The > fact that old files that may be needed to upgrade are no where to be found > stinks. In this case even if one had a CD one would not be able to upgrade > as the required perl (Why not use Python? at least it doesn't change too > much between minor versions as perl seems to do.) was never part of the > stable distributions. > > Here is another suggestion: Remove all the ftp links in > /etc/apt/sources.list file as they are the ones that need perl and use the > http ones only.
that should definitly work...http works better anyway > Another suggestion is try the upgrading by hand. The sinstructions are on > the http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html I would recommend against this...instead use autoup.sh (dunno where to get it these days) I have used autoup sucessfully many times...hasn't failed on me yet. -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null