On Monday 05 February 2001 16:15, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I am stumped trying to install 'unstable/sid'.. When I run, for > example, 'apt-get install debconf', I get error > messages similar to the folllowing: > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > Sorry, task-x-window-system-core is already the newest version > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 9 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Setting up debconf (0.5.55) ... > Can't locate Fcntl.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. > Compilation failed in require at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. > > ...etc. I get similar messages, alos when I try to install other > packages like task-x-window-system-base > > ... according to some messages in the archives, this may be bug# 81485. > > When I read through the archives, one solution suggested was to install > perl-5.6 > (or was it perll-5.6-base? couldn't find perl-5.6). When I run apt-get > perl-5.6, the same > messages came up so I seem to be in a catch 22 situation. > > I would be grateful if anyone could show me where there is information > about a > workaround that would get me around this problem so that I could start > to build my > 'unstable' system. > > TIA > > James
I ran into the same problem twice and ended-up reinstalling woody. This was mentioned earlier on this list, i believe the solution was to softlink your currently installed perl-5.x version with /usr/bin/perl, if not you can check the archives. William