On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:03:40AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude > > started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my > > computer! > > You did that. Aptitude warned you about this after the first time you > hit g. You told aptitude that it's idea of whats going to happen is > correct and it g to go ahead anyway. In the future, pay attention to > what your computer is telling you. 8:o)
fair enough, I'll stop blaming aptitude... but I don't REMEMBER seeing the long list of red-coded packages aptitude must have presented me with... oh well. > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb (--unpack): > > trying to overwrite `/etc/default/devpts', which is also in package > > initscripts > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb > > dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb > thank you. should have looked harder in man (tho with the pagers missing it waas a bit tricky to consult... ). thanks to you and dircha both. m > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
