Problems with perl-5.6 in debian woody

[Ig0r]

When I reinstalled debian on my workstation to get rid of all the cruft I had aquired during my first install of debian, I used the potato apt sources to install the base system (commandline only, emacs, base libraries, etc...) and then used the woody apt sources to install the rest of what I needed (XF 4, gnome, all applications, etc...).
My problem is that some programs in woody depend on perl-5.6, and whenever dpkg installs perl-5.6 it breaks debconf and dpkg (*ouch*). Is there something that I need to do to convert all of debconf's libraries to ones that work with perl 5.6 before I actually install it that the installer itself isn't doing?

[PLBlaze]

I never used debian (ok ,maybe once,time ago http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif) but i'd suggest getting the perl source from cpan.org and doing the compilation yourself.

As to your problem,it could be that the perl you got with debian has no suidperl enabled or maybe it needs to have use_large_files option?

Have you checked/asked on debian's mailing lists?Most likely someone had similar probelm and has the solution...Hope this helps.

[This message has been edited by PLBlaze (edited 18 November 2000).]

[Ig0r]

It's not perl itself that's the problem, it's that it can't use debconf's database made for anolder version of perl. I have no idea how I would/could convert the database...

[klamath]

Let me guess this straight - the system is half woody and half potato? You're using potato's debconf and woody's perl?

If so, that's not going to work.

I personally am running woody, but I haven't upgraded Perl yet. 5.005 works fine for me, so I figure I'll wait a couple weeks for everything to settle down. So I don't know what the situation on Perl 5.6 is - if it will trash your system or not.

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