Re: More on my problems with debconf and perl
I had a similar problem (or as near as I can tell without the error message). For some reason, perl-5.005 was not installed completely, so I went into /etc/alternatives and changed the link `perl' to point to `perl-5.004' instead of `perl-5.005', everything worked fine after that. In other words (as root): # cd /etc/alternatives # rm perl # ln -s /usr/bin/perl-5.004 perl HTH, cbb Actually, this was the fix. Thanx. After this I was able to configure everything else! I really like the timidity. Apparently this is a problem with either debconf or perl 5.005. I'm not sure which. I'll leave it to the smarter people to figure this one out. I think the next step is to upgrade xanim. I use mtvp for mpegs, but need xanim for other video types. Cheers, John Gay
Re: More on my problems with debconf and perl
You might try installing perl-base... On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, John Gay wrote: 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: More on my problems with debconf and perl
I had a similar problem (or as near as I can tell without the error message). For some reason, perl-5.005 was not installed completely, so I went into /etc/alternatives and changed the link `perl' to point to `perl-5.004' instead of `perl-5.005', everything worked fine after that. In other words (as root): # cd /etc/alternatives # rm perl # ln -s /usr/bin/perl-5.004 perl HTH, cbb Thanx for the info. I had another look through the Debian package site for unstable and had a good dig through the bug reports for some of the things that failed. I 'think' I may have found a bug report relating to this in perl. I think it might be a termcap problem, whatever that is. I'll have another look at it when I get home. I really appreciate Debians extensive system to ensure All dependencies are met before installation, but it can be frustrating when a package you want installs things like perl and debconf that you will probably never use. But , better safe than sorry. Cheers, John Gay
