On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 04:46:03 +0000, T o n g wrote: [...]
> $ apt-get install swatch [...] > The following extra packages will be installed: > libbit-vector-perl libcarp-clan-perl libdate-calc-perl libdate-manip-perl > libfile-tail-perl libperl5.10 libyaml-syck-perl perl perl-base > perl-modules [...] > The following packages will be upgraded: > libperl5.10 perl perl-base perl-modules > 4 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 553 not upgraded. > Need to get 12.0MB of archives. > After this operation, 16.5MB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ^C > > Simple and straightforward right? Now take a look at the followings: > > $ aptitude install swatch > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libbit-vector-perl{a} libcarp-clan-perl{a} libdate-calc-perl{a} > libdate-manip-perl{a} libfile-tail-perl{a} libyaml-syck-perl{a} swatch > The following packages will be upgraded: > perl perl-base perl-modules > 3 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 554 not > upgraded. > Need to get 12.0MB of archives. After unpacking 16.5MB will be used. > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libperl5.10: Depends: perl-base (= 5.10.1-12) but 5.10.1-14 is to be > installed. So the problem is that aptitude thinks it cannot upgrade libperl5.10. What is the output of: aptitude show libperl5.10 | awk '/^Package/,/^Version/' aptitude --simulate --show-deps install libperl5.10=5.10.1-14 (I only need to see the first solution that is proposed for the second command; you can quit immediately if it should go into another series of solution attempts.) -- Regards, | Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100829095549.ga4...@isar.localhost