On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 18:26, Barrie Bremner wrote: > After installing Perl 5.6.1, I had the following error whilst > attempting to do apt-get install [any package]: > <snip Baz's debconf breakage> > > So, not having a clue, I just copied Debian/DebConf/* from the > perl5.005 location into /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/ That's not the fix :) Perhaps you ought to read Debian's Perl Policy (yep, Perl has a policy doc all of it's own ;) > Now, installation via apt works (as far as I can see), but I get the > message: > > (in cleanup) Can't call method "DESTROY" on an undefined value at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Debian/DebConf/Question.pm line > 251 during global destruction. > > Is there a way around this? Run the other Perl: either rename /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl5.6, or fiddle $PATH, or just stick to the Debian versions of Perl - sid has Perl 5.6.1 :D > Setting up dhcp (2.0pl4-2) ... > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/dhcp: file does not exist Hmmmm. > But none of the other Debian machines appear to have /etc/init.d/dhcp > either (none have had the package installed before). That is correct; only one with dhcpd installed would need it. TBH, the dhcp init script is a pile of cack, but the package should be installing it. I just tried reinstalling the package on my gateway machine, and it works fine. Have you got odd permissions in /etc/init.d/ ? Don't touch the file into existance anyway - that's not going to work, it needs to exist and have sensible information in it, and should come from the package. > Finally - and I've just remembered this one, what are the packages or > tasks required on Woody for a working GNOME install? Tasks are deprecated. Sounds like you need to apt-get install gnome-session. > Is there not a task-gnome any more? Nope :-) > I couldn't find anything in > apt-cache search gnome, and blindly attempting to install it reported > no such package. If it's not in apt-cache, it's not a package and hence is unlikely to be installable ;) apt-get install gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-session gnome-games gnome-terminal gnome-utils .. should install the Gnome desktop environment for you. After that, just choose the apps you want. Cheers, Alex.
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