Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-09 Thread John Doggett
On 7 Mar 1997, Guy Maor wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes: Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken. io was merged into perl and is now obsolete. Remove io and reinstall perl. bash:

Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi folks, I asked for help on this problem last week but since having to change addresses suddenly I didn't get any replies (you might have seen them bouncing) so here it is again. My linux box is almost unusable because of this so I look forward to some help on the matter. 1:

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Randy Dees
I am getting this same problem - I got it after pointing dselect from 1.2.2 at unstable. My fix is to reinstall from base disks in unstable; but I certainly understand not wanting to do this. I was ready to reinstall my system anyhow - but would like to know the answer too. When

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
I think your perl installation is messed up. Here's a small demo what happens with script files that reference a missing interpreter. First I show the shell I'm using but it's pretty much the same thing with bash. Then I show the location of the perl binary, create a small test script and give

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Brian Skreeg
When I do 'dpkg --status perl' and 'dpkg --status perl-base' it prints out the corresponding lines: Package: perl Status: install ok installed [cut] Package: perl-base Status: purge ok not-installed [cut] Yep that's what I get. It's perl I have installed and not perl-base . I can't uninstall

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
)431-2617 Canada M1J-2L7 On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: Date: Fri, 7 Mar 97 15:44:17 GMT From: Brian Skreeg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)). Hi folks, I asked for help

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes: Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken. io was merged into perl and is now obsolete. Remove io and reinstall perl. bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory.