Can't install libperl-dev

[Jeramy Rutley]

jeramy@tuscany:~/devel/inkscape $ sudo apt-get install libperl-dev
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
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 only requested a single operation it is extremely likely 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:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libperl-dev: Depends: perl (= 5.8.4-2) but 5.8.4-2ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
              Depends: libperl5.8 (= 5.8.4-2) but 5.8.4-2ubuntu0.2 is to be
installed
E: Broken packages

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Can you post the output of 'apt-cache policy libperl-dev'? The dependencies you
show aren't those of the current version of libperl-dev in warty-security.

[Jeramy Rutley (jrutley)]

jeramy@tuscany:~ $ sudo apt-cache policy libperl-dev
libperl-dev:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 5.8.4-2
  Version Table:
     5.8.4-2ubuntu0.2 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com warty-security/main Packages
     5.8.4-2 0
        990 http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/main Packages

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10183.