On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:12:08PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say: > > NO, NO, NO, this is not redhat.com! Do this on a Debian only if you really > > know what you are doing or you may destroy your system. > > As far as I can see there is often not another way to do it. > Ie., program complains over a lib that is too old. If you try > to install the lib it complains over that there is already an > old version there. That's one of the problems I've encountered > quite a lot of times with Debian, and one of the times I've had > to use the force options.
Could you give an example? I'm vague here on what your problem is. > As for the problem with conflicting library versions or whatever > you risk getting into when using --force*, I find that to be > a smaller problem than the problems I get when dpkg complains > about old versions that risk being overwritten. > > Btw, is it possible to tell dpkg to install all dependencies > automagically? > > /Staffan apt is for dependency resolution. Use it. (if there's a reason you can't use it, file bug reports until you can :) ) Daniel -- DROP THE SCYTHE AND TURN AROUND SLOWLY. -- Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"
