Hi all,
I am a new monk here,and I've a confused problem. I wanna run perldoc ,but it told me :
You need to install the perl-doc package to use this program.

But in /usr/bin,the program is just in there.My system is Debian Etch,and the perl version is 5.8.8 . So I use 'apt-get install perl-doc',however ,it failed with this:

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 onlu requested a single operation it is extremely likelu 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:
perl-doc:Depends:perl (>=5.8.4.1)but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

What should I do?I have to throw perldoc into junkbox? thanks for your reply!

In reply to Cannot run perldoc and install perl-doc! by fedorame

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.