Re: alien/perl

2001-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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. That would be the one from unstable, then? That requires unstable's perl packages, which have been reorganized. Just use the one in your cur

alien/perl

2001-02-27 Thread Johnny Blade
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-