I mentioned in a previous mail about the slight problem I had with debconf when I tried to install timidity. I've been following the thread about debconf, but my problem is much different.
When I first updated timidity from unstable, it installed perl 5.004 and 5.005. This completed properly, but there was something about changing some scripts? I don't use perl, and know nothing about it, so I just left it be. debconf then failed for some strange perl error? it said something about looking for a file in perl. I don't have the details with me, the Linux box is a home. I tried it again last night, with the new, fixed debconf package but I still get the error about the missing perl file. timidity does work with the timidity and timidity-patches installed and not configured due to the debconf problems, but I would like to figure out what is wrong with perl and why it is stopping debconf from configuring? I don't actually use perl, or debconf, and I'm not sure why timidity should depend on it, but I am new to Linux. Please bear with me. Other than that, I really like the apt-get package. Most of this is small AND self-inflicted by using unstable, but I wanted xmms, sane 1.0.1 and timidity. I can see why Corel chose Debian. and that decision make me feel real good about my decision to use Debian when I first started playing with Linux about a year ago. Keep up the good work. Cheers, John Gay