I'm a newbie trying to follow dann's writeup on E2 - HOWTO: Install ecore on a Linux OS

When I try to install libmail-sender-perl_0.7.14.1-2_i386.deb it says I need package 'perl'.

However I've got perl-5.005 installed. I do a apt-get install perl, and apt-get wants to uninstall all the Everything bits I've installed and also get rid of perl-5.005. So I let it trash all my stuff, then I do a apt-get -f install, it reinstalls perl, but libmail still won't go.

From here on it boils down to one thing needing perl and another needing perl-5*. Any ideas? Thanks!

Edited: Mon Jul 15 03:58:38 2002 (GTM)
by footpad. Fixed formatting, per Consideration.

In reply to Can't install libmail-sender by Anonymous Monk

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