[H-GEN] Debian install newbie

[David Duffy]

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> David Duffy wrote:
> 
>> This is what I get when trying "apt-get install apache":
>>
>> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   apache: Depends: apache-common (>= 1.3.26-0) but it is not going to 
>> be installed
>>           Depends: apache-common (< 1.3.27-0) but it is not going to 
>> be installed
>>           Depends: perl5 or
>>                    perl but it is not going to be installed

Sandra Milne wrote:
> This is infinitely more helpful than the previous post. Firstly I'd try 
> to install apache-common. Then I'd do an "apt-cache search perl5" and 
> see what the actual package is called. A search on my debian b0x 
> suggests libperl5.6 or libperl5.6-dev might be a place to start....
> 
> If you're using online deb sources, try "apt-get update". Your package 
> lists may be out of date (although they shouldn't be). I have no 
> problems trying to install apache on my system. It comes up and tells me 
> it can install both of them from the cd. Have you removed the cd as a 
> deb source? I only do that when moving to a new release (say, 3.0r2). 
> The online stable release is generally the same packages if you're using 
> the latest cds.

The CD's were from APC magazine a month or two ago. (3.0r1)
I commented out the lines that referred to the CD's and added one:
"deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free"
I also did the apt-get update a couple of times after that.
"apt-cache search perl5" shows:

checkbot - a WWW link verifier
im - Internet Message
libappconfig-perl - Perl module for configuration file and command line 
parsing
libcgi-perl - modules for perl5, for use in writing CGI scripts.
libcgi-pm-perl - a Perl5 CGI Library
libdbd-excel-perl - Perl5 module for Excel file access with SQL via DBI
libdbd-odbc-perl - Perl5 module for an ODBC driver for DBI
libdbi-perl - The Perl5 Database Interface by Tim Bunce
libfinance-streamer-perl - Perl5 module with interface to Datek Streamer
libgd-graph-perl - Graph Plotting Module for Perl 5
libgifgraph-perl - perl GIFgraph - Graph Plotting Module for Perl 5.
libinline-octave-perl - Perl5 module to Inline GNU Octave code
libio-stringy-perl - Perl5 modules for IO from scalars and arrays
libmath-bigint-perl - Perl5 module for math. operation on numbers of 
arbitrary size
libmath-numbercruncher-perl - Perl5 module with commonly needed Maths 
and Stats functions
libmime-lite-perl - Perl5 module for convenient generation of MIME messages
libmime-perl - Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant messages (MIME-tools)
libnet-ipnetmember-perl - Perl5 module to check membership in IP networks
libole-storage-lite-perl - Perl5 module with Simple Class for OLE 
document interface.
liboro-java - Regular expression library for Java
libsgmls-perl - Perl modules for processing SGML parser output
libsnmp-perl - NET SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Perl5 Support.
libsoap-lite-perl - Perl5 modules for client and server side SOAP 
implementation
libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl - Perl5 module to access Excel Spreadsheets.
libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl - Perl5 module to create Excel spreadsheets.
libstatistics-descriptive-perl - Perl5 module of basic descriptive 
statistical functions.
libstorable-perl - Storable extension for Perl5
libtime-modules-perl - Various Perl modules for time/date manipulation
libperl5.6 - Shared Perl library.
perl - Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language.
libperl5.8 - Shared Perl library.
perl-base - The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.


If I try "apt-get install libperl5.8" I get:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, libperl5.8 is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.

RedHat 9 (or whatever the latest is), here I come!
Still confused...
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