[plug] Broken Debian upgrade

[Bret Busby]

Hello, everyone.

I have tried to upgrade my laptop, from Debian sarge to Debian etch, and 
it has wrecked the system.

It has removed gnome, and I am unable to re-install gnome.

It keeps coming up with (Unable to load Gnome - is libgnome2-perl 
installed?). I have tried to use "aptitude install libgnome2-perl, but 
that doesn't work.

Also, when I run the aptitude command (with no switches), it tells me 
that the number of broken patches is two, but there appears to be no 
option in aptitude (from the "dialogue" displayed), to list or fix the 
broken packages. How do I list the broken packages, and fix them?

Whilst someone else on the list, apparently upgraded from sarge to etch 
without any significant problems, for me it is turning into something 
that appears to have been written by Kafka, and it appears to be 
something that should be only done by a Linux guru.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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