I agree wholeheartedly. It is probably safest at this point to do upgrades with 'apt-get upgrade' rather than with dselect. Or run 'apt-get update' and see what packages it intends to keep back, say no, go to dselect and put those packages on hold.
Bob On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 05:55:25PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > You have unstable in your sources.list file and unstable is VERY > unstable right now with regards to perl, most likely lots of broken > dependencies. Perl is being transitioned from 5.004 to 5.005 which is > not as small of a change as it may appear from the version numbers. Read > the debian-devel archives for the details. Basically if you are using > any thing in unstable that needs perl then expect major problems for a > while until everything settles down. It's called unstable for a reason. > > Brian > > > *- On 6 Jul, Brian Boonstra wrote about "Netscape .debs conflict with > perl5.004?" > > Hi > > > > I seem to have some incompatible dependencies in trying to obtain > > Netscape version 4.6 from the .debs. My problem is that, according to the > > dependency resolution screens (I copy and paste from various conflict > > readouts here): > > > > navigator-smotif-461 depends on netscape-base-4 (>= 10) > > netscape-base-4 depends on liburi-perl > > liburi-perl depends on libmime-base64-perl > > liburi-perl depends on perl (>= 5.004) > > libmime-base64-perl depends on perl-5.005 > > perl-5.005 depends on perl-5.005-base > > perl-5.005-base conflicts with perl > > > > so basically perl (which is v5.004) is somehow keeping me from installing. > > > > I'm no expert here, but I'm savvy enough to know my /etc/apt/sources.list > > may > > have something to do with this. Please find it below. > > > > One thing I *have* tried is the "Q" option in dselect to override the > > dependencies. This doesn't seem to work, as dselect fails to download and > > install the netscape .debs anyway. My question is, what is the "right" way > > > > to solve this dilemma? > > > > > > Yours, > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > > > sources.list: > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US > > deb http://debian.midco.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/deb/binary-i386 / > > deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ > > deb ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/gnome-1.0/debian slink main > > > > > > > > -- > Brian > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen