apt-get problem

JoeHill joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 31 18:37:19 UTC 2003


On 31 Oct 2003 13:36:35 -0500
Kareem Shehata <kareem-d+8TeBu5bOew5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org> uttered:

> I've found that with a decent install of Debian, the force option is
> very rarely necessary.  The dependencies tend to be very well worked
> out, and between apt and dpkg, upgrades are usually straight-forward.
> 
> > It's funny, though, that even after renaming /usr/bin/alsamixer, it
> > still saw a conflict. Perhaps you were on the right track, and there
> > is a record in /var/cache/apt/archives/ that is telling apt-get that
> > /usr/bin/alsamixer still exists, even though it does not.
> 
> So far as I know, the actually file doesn't much matter, the dpkg
> records keep track of which files are supposed to belong to which
> package.  The result is that both packages have database entries for
> the same file, and dpkg will not allow both to be installed.
> 
> > Look in /var/cache/apt/archives/ for a config file that lists
> > installed packages, and you might be able to comment out or delete
> > the entry.
> 
> Again, in debian this should be completely unnecessary, and sets up a
> very bad precedent.  If you're going to do this, you might as well not
> bother with apt, since you've destroyed it's most vital function:
> keeping track of what's on the system.

Looks like Knoppix has played around with the "decent install of Debian"
though...which may require some "tinkering".

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