Naively installing the yakkety package does not work. 5.22.1-9 It would help if the perl depencency would just be a little lower. And there is a problem with install-docs when trying that on xenial.
sudo dpkg --install pdl_2.016-4_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 1136894 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack pdl_2.016-4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking pdl (1:2.016-4) over (1:2.007-5) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pdl: pdl depends on perl (>= 5.22.2-1); however: Version of perl on system is 5.22.1-9. pdl depends on perlapi-5.22.2; however: Package perlapi-5.22.2 is not installed. dpkg: error processing package pdl (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.7) ... Processing 1 changed doc-base file... Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/pdl', line 14: all `Format' sections are invalid. Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about the above error. Registering documents with scrollkeeper... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47ubuntu1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: pdl -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1695763 Title: lots of pdl messages on Xenial Negative repeat count does nothing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pdl/+bug/1695763/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs