Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

[Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch>]

Hi,

"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:20:40 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adduser:
> >  adduser depends on perl-base; however:
> >   Package perl-base is not installed.
> 
> This is the root of your problem. Many other packages fail because their
> maintainer scripts are written in perl.
> 
> Try downloading a perl-base .deb and installing that with dpkg
> (dpkg -OEG -i perl-base*deb).
I have the whole snapshot on CD-Rom.
Did so: dpkg -OEG -i perl-base_5.004.05-1.deb
-> Skipping deselected package perl-base
dselect [C] same result.

???

Thanks 
Andreas