Hello Russell Thanks Russell, I used "--force-conflicts" and it installed. I should have thought of that myself.
Now I must find a time to reboot the machine to test it. In the meantime I will leave the magic boot stiffy in the 'a' drive - just in case we get a 3AM power failure ! (All the machines that can be conveniently rebooted are running woody ) Regards Ian On 31 Jan 2002, at 16:59, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 04:06, I. Forbes wrote: > > > > > > 1) has anybody got a 'deb' of the latest lilo, back-ported onto > > > > > > potato. I am looking for one to use on my "stable" machines? > > > > > > > > > > http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ > > > > > > > > Thanks very much. It almost looks like you put this together in > > > > response to my request. > > > > > > Yes. > > > > There is a small bug with this package. When I try and install it I get > > a problem with conflicting manpage versions. The lilo-doc package > > installed without problems. > > > > nimbus2:~/debs# dpkg -i lilo_22.1-6potato1_i386.deb > > dpkg: regarding lilo_22.1-6potato1_i386.deb containing lilo: > > lilo conflicts with manpages (<< 1.29-3) > > manpages (version 1.29-2) is installed. > > dpkg: error processing lilo_22.1-6potato1_i386.deb (--install): > > conflicting packages - not installing lilo > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > lilo_22.1-6potato1_i386.deb > > > > The manpages package installed is the latest "stable" version. > > Sorry I forgot about that. Use --force-conflicts and --force-overwrite, it's > probably not worth releasing a new package just for this. > > Or you could just install the manpages package from woody. > > -- > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Forbes ZSD http://www.zsd.co.za Office: +27 21 683-1388 Fax: +27 21 674-1106 Snail Mail: P.O. Box 46827, Glosderry, 7702, South Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
