Re: Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:53:46PM -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote:
> I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace
> some from the Debian repos. However, removing them will also remove a
> bunch of libs and kde progs. E.g., apt-get remove libavcodec53
> yields:
>
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 190 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>
> I'm not up to reinstalling 190 packages. apt-get install that pkg
> just tells me that "libavcodec53 is already the newest version". Is
> there any way around this? Is it possible to easily replace the deb-
> multimedia pkgs with the Debian ones?
>
I haven't tried this, but it seems like it would work:
1) Remove the deb-multimedia packages using dpkg instead of apt
2) Remove deb-multimedia from sources.list
3) apt-get install -f
-Rob
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