On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 08:22:08PM +0200, Olaf Conradi wrote: > Hi, > > I had proftpd installed (on the standerd port) and ftpd on a > non-standard port. But the ftp daemons now have a dependency on > ftp-server, which allows only one to be installed on a system at the same > time. > > How can I get around this so that apt will install both packages and > keep updating then when newer versions appear?
well, this is really annoying... If I were you, I would file a bugreport on both ftp servers, because the conflict seems not to be very well designed. And as for the quick and dirty fix I would: 1) get mc - it will be helpful 2) backup one of the servers (use dpkg -L packagename to list its contents) 3) _remove_ it (luckily dpkg supports both --purge and --remove) , so that you don't loose your config files, and then restore the package from the backup 4) as for the upgrades, i would use mc on a new package file to copy the files from it to the system The other option is to: get the source packages of the server(s) and compile your own versions of ftp servers that don't conflict each other (or one another? I can't really remember the rule). This however will require a certain amount of hacking (don't ask me how to do this... i've never done that) hope this helps Marcin -- -------------------------------- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------
