[Voyage-linux] Hints on installing perl

[Kim-man "Punky" TSE]

Hi Andrew,

But I got no problem in running "apt-get install perl":

See:
voyage:~# apt-get install perl
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdb4.2 libgdbm3 perl-base perl-modules
Suggested packages:
  libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl
Recommended packages:
  perl-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdb4.2 libgdbm3 perl perl-modules
The following packages will be upgraded:
  perl-base
1 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 6577kB of archives.
After unpacking 23.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org sarge/main perl-base 5.8.4-8sarge4 [752kB]
Get:2 ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org sarge/main libdb4.2 4.2.52-18 [388kB]
Get:3 ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org sarge/main libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 [21.3kB]
Get:4 ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org sarge/main perl-modules 5.8.4-8sarge4 [2178kB]
Get:5 ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org sarge/main perl 5.8.4-8sarge4 [3238kB]
Fetched 6577kB in 11s (561kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 6698 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace perl-base 5.8.4-8sarge3 (using 
.../perl-base_5.8.4-8sarge4_
i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement perl-base ...
Setting up perl-base (5.8.4-8sarge4) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libdb4.2.
(Reading database ... 6698 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libdb4.2 (from .../libdb4.2_4.2.52-18_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libgdbm3.
Unpacking libgdbm3 (from .../libgdbm3_1.8.3-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package perl-modules.
Unpacking perl-modules (from .../perl-modules_5.8.4-8sarge4_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package perl.
Unpacking perl (from .../perl_5.8.4-8sarge4_i386.deb) ...
Setting up libdb4.2 (4.2.52-18) ...
Setting up libgdbm3 (1.8.3-2) ...
Setting up perl-modules (5.8.4-8sarge4) ...
Setting up perl (5.8.4-8sarge4) ...

voyage:~#

- Punky

Andrew Niemantsverdriet wrote:
> I am trying to get perl to install when I do an apt-get install perl I
> get this error:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   perl: Depends: libdb4.2 but it is not installable
>         Depends: libgdbm3 but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
>
> Any hints on how to get perl installed?
>
>
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