Re: undo apt-get install
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 10:30, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> When the installation process returns an error and even
> 'apt-get -f install' bombs out, how do I tell apt-get to
> forget that I asked for the packages and to just leave the
> system as it was?
>
> The errors are:
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-pty-helper.1.gz',
> which is also in package libzvt2
> and:
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-doc.1.gz',
> which is also in package gnome-bin
Another solution to that is to use dpkg with the force options
(explained in the man page or dpkg --help) to get the package with an
error to overwrite the file. The deb package in question will be in the
/var/cache/apt/archives directory.
--mike
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