Hi People,
I'm running slink and when I tried to update my packages the other
night using dselect, a number of packages, mostly perl and pam, had
errors. Now dselect is stuck. I can't update, install, switch to ftp
access method, .. It's already been couple days, and I've seen no
mention of how to rekindle the dselect fire on debian-user. (pretty
quiet, actually) What must I do to get dselect working again? I've
been watching bug track and I see this remains as outstanding critical.
(error messages below)
Thanks,
David
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If I try to access the ftp dselect method I get the error message:
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Can't locate Net/FTP.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.005 /usr/lib/perl5/5.005
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at
/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/ftp/setup line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dpkg//methods/ftp/setup
line 7.
query/setup script returned error exit status 2.
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If I try to run a install using dselect I get the error message:
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Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...dependency error
Correcting dependencies...ok
Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have
unmet
dependencies:
libpam0: Depends:libpam0g
perl: Depends:perl-base
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If I try to run update using dselect I receive the error message:
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Updating package file cache...done
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...dependency error
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have
unmet
dependencies:
perl-suid: Depends:perl
libpam0: Depends:libpam0g
perl: Depends:perl-base
Merging Available information
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And if I try to run apt-get -f install (as suggested above):
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Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...dependency error
Correcting dependencies...ok
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libmime-base64-perl alien apache-common dwww
procmail-lib xaw-wrappers libgtk-perl libnet-perl premail weblint
apache libmd5-perl lg-base fvwmconf dpkg-dev makepasswd
kernel-package
libhtml-parser-perl pkg-order ucspi-tcp-src dpkg-ftp dpkg-http
econfigedit
libpam0-altutil libwww-perl perl-suid debhelper info2www dftp
sysutils
xlogmaster libpam0
perl-tk perl
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
perl perl perl
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 59 to remove and 28 not
upgraded.
7 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0b of archives. After unpacking 46.8M will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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