Trying to upgrade from uptodate hoary to latest breezy ?

[Nigel Walters]

Hi,

I am trying to upgrade my system which is an upto date hoary to breezy.

I get the following error from synaptic (or apt-get)

Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 212880 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xorg-common 6.8.2-10.1 (using
.../xorg-common_6.8.2-69_all.deb) ...
Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8
/usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 24.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 24.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xorg-common_6.8.2-69_all.deb
(--unpack):
there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up
System startup links for /etc/init.d/xorg-common already exist.
* Setting up X server socket directory... [ ok ]
* Setting up ICE socket directory... [ ok ]
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xorg-common_6.8.2-69_all.deb
E:


Any suggestions how to proceed ?

Thanks
Nigel
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