Chris,

I just was told about this issue yesterday.  Researching.

Thanks for reporting this issue.

-connie sieh
On Fri, 27 Aug
2004, Chris Fischer wrote:

> I have just finished installing SL-302 on an opteron platform.
> Unfortunately, I found that perl was not installed. The output of
> "apt-get install perl" yields:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   perl: Depends: perl(Filter::Util::Call)
>         Depends: perl(OS2::Process) but it is not installable
>         Depends: perl(Term::ReadKey) but it is not installable
>         Depends: perl(Tie::RangeHash) but it is not installable
>
> As a temporary fix to the situation, I installed perl via "rpm
> --nodeps". However, if I want to install any package via apt-get that
> depends on perl (quite a few), apt-get will catch the unmet
> dependencies.
>
> any suggestions ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Chris
>