apt problems (?)

[Fraser Campbell]

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 10:38, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:22:34AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libxv1_4.3.0-7_i386.deb
>
> NO!!!
>
> dpkg -r --force-depends xlibs
> apt-get -f install

You're right, makes much more sense to do it your way.  I know just enough 
dpkg to be dangerous I guess ;-)

> That way you aren't doing something bad, instead you just "temporarily"
> override a dependancy check to allow replacing a package, and then
> apt-get puts back the new version of both packages.  force overwrite is
> almost always a very bad idea since then two packages own the same file
> and messy problems can occour.

I haven't run into the types of problems your suggesting, still your way is 
vastly better.  Thanks for the tip,
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