Re: .deb dependancy hell

[Francois Bottin <fbottin@free.fr>]

Selon Richard Hoskins <rhos@adelphia.net>:

> On unstable, i386.
> 
> Kind of reminds me of RPM:
> 
>    rich@lajoie:~$ sudo dpkg -r libgphoto2-2
>    dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libgphoto2-2:
>     libgphoto2-port0 depends on libgphoto2-2.
>    dpkg: error processing libgphoto2-2 (--remove):
>     dependency problems - not removing
>    Errors were encountered while processing:
>     libgphoto2-2
> 
>    rich@lajoie:~$ sudo dpkg -r libgphoto2-port0
>    dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libgphoto2-port0:
>     libgphoto2-2 depends on libgphoto2-port0 (>= 2.1.4-1).
>    dpkg: error processing libgphoto2-port0 (--remove):
>     dependency problems - not removing
>    Errors were encountered while processing:
>     libgphoto2-port0
> 

apt-get remove libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0

or even better, use aptitude...

    François.

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