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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