> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:09:17PM -0500, Burton Windle wrote: > > dpkg? > > > > dpkg -i filename.deb > > Not even close. For instance: > > PKGLIST="modutils- another+ another2+" > apt-get -y install $PKGLIST > > will fail. If you you do it at the lower level: > > PKGLIST1="modutils" > for $pkg in $PKGLIST1; do > dpkg --purge $pkg < yes > done > PKGLIST2="another.deb another2.deb" > for $pkg in $PKGLIST1; do
You probably mean $PKGLIST2 here, as written it reinstalls modutils. > dpkg --install $pkg < yes > done > > will also fail to remove modutils. > > I've just been chatting with BDale and he suggested > I talk to people on debian-boot as there actually > is no current good hands-off option. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------ > IN MY NAME: Dale Amon, CEO/MD > No Mushroom clouds over Islandone Society > London and New York. www.islandone.org > ------------------------------------------------------ If you are desperate you could always extract the package yourself and install it "by hand", but that is probably not what you wanted: $ ar -t mpage_2.5.3-1_i386.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz $ ar -x mpage_2.5.3-1_i386.deb $ cat debian-binary 2.0 $ tar ztf control.tar.gz ./ ./md5sums ./control $ tar zxf control.tar.gz $ cat control Package: mpage Version: 2.5.3-1 Section: text Priority: optional Architecture: i386 ... $ cat md5sums 7892f5b1dd260b1ac7b55ec327ffb6dd usr/lib/mpage/CP850.PC ... f6f1f0f1975ee35e54b4ce0438a8053b usr/share/doc/mpage/changelog.Debian.gz $ tar ztf data.tar.gz ./ ./usr/ ./usr/lib/ ./usr/lib/mpage/ ./usr/lib/mpage/CP850.PC ... ./usr/share/doc/mpage/TODO.gz ./usr/share/doc/mpage/changelog.Debian.gz Dale Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:37:08 +0000: ... > No "add the following 10 switches to force that action". ... dpkg -i --force-all "$@" One switch to force that action. Regards, /Karl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Hammar Aspö Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Aspö 2340 Networks S-742 94 Östhammar +46 173 140 57 Computers Sweden +46 70 511 97 84 Consulting ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
