I was trying to install alien in order to convert some rpm's to deb's, so I downloaded the latest version of alien in deb format. I tried to dpkg --install it, but it balked at my not having the package "perl" installed on my system. I have perl-5.005, perl-5.005-base, perl-5.005-doc, perl-5.005-suid, and perl-base installed.
I then went to dselect to try to find a package called "perl", which there is, but it conflicts with perl-5.005-base. A lot of other packages depend on the perl-5.005 packages, so installing the plain 'perl' package would break them. I'm new to debian/linux, so I don't want to mess things up by removing perl-5.005, but I want to get alien installed. Any solutions/suggestions? Also, I tried to dpkg --install perl-5.6.0-20_i386.deb from the unstable section, and again the problem of many of my packages depending on the perl-5.005 packages came up. -JB __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
