What is the configuration of your apt-get?
Where are you pulling rpms from?
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, brian davies wrote:
> tried that.
> E: Couldn't find package perl-Term-ReadKey
>
>
> On 28/02/06, [log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Have you tried
>>
>> apt-get install perl-Term-ReadKey
>>
>> by hand and see why it is not installable?
>>
>> cheers
>> alessandra
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, brian davies wrote:
>>
>>> ok, i am trying to do a fresh install of DPM on a SL303 machine
>>> the dpm configure fails because it doesn't have edg-mkgridmap,
>>> which fails to apt-get install since perl is broken
>>>
>>> apt-get install edg-mkgridmap
>>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>>>
>>> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
>>> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
>>> that package should be filed.
>>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>>
>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>> edg-mkgridmap: Depends: perl(Term::ReadKey) but it is not installable
>>> Depends: perl(Term::ReadKey) but it is not installable
>>>
>>>
>>> if i rpm -qa | grep perl i get:
>>>
>>> perl-Filter-1.29-3
>>> perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-28
>>> perl-XML-Encoding-1.01-23
>>> perl-5.8.0-90.4
>>> perl-XML-Parser-2.31-15
>>> perl-Parse-Yapp-1.05-30
>>> perl-libxml-perl-0.07-28
>>> perl-XML-Grove-0.46alpha-25
>>> perl-SGMLSpm-1.03ii-11
>>> perl-DateManip-5.40-30
>>> perl-URI-1.21-7
>>> perl-XML-Dumper-0.4-25
>>> perl-XML-Twig-3.09-3
>>> perl-libwww-perl-5.65-6
>>> perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-17
>>> perl-libxml-enno-1.02-29
>>> perl-CPAN-1.61-90.4
>>>
>>> any ideas?
>>>
>>
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