Bug#2435: ncurses-term conflicts with ncurses-base
Package: ncurses-term
Version: 1.9.8a-4
I happen to know that `--force-conflicts' is safe here, but people
should not be encouraged to use it, obviously :-).
Ian.
-root@chiark:binary-i386> dpkg -i misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb
dpkg: regarding misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb containing ncurses-term:
ncurses-term conflicts with ncurses-runtime
ncurses-base provides ncurses-runtime and is installed.
dpkg: error processing misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing ncurses-term
Errors were encountered while processing:
misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb
-root@chiark:binary-i386> dpkg -i --force-conflicts misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb
dpkg: regarding misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb containing ncurses-term:
ncurses-term conflicts with ncurses-runtime
ncurses-base provides ncurses-runtime and is installed.
dpkg: warning - ignoring conflict, may proceed anyway !
(Reading database ... 16047 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ncurses-term (from misc/ncurses-term-1.9.8a-4.deb) ...
Setting up ncurses-term ...
-root@chiark:binary-i386>
-chiark:~> dpkg -l 'ncurses*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Rev Description
+++-============-=========-====-===============================================
un ncurses (no description available)
ii ncurses-base 1.9.8a 4 Video terminal manipulation: Minimum set of ter
ii ncurses-bin 1.9.8a 4 Video terminal manipulation: associated program
un ncurses-dev (no description available)
pn ncurses-deve (no description available)
pn ncurses-runt (no description available)
in ncurses-term (no description available)
un ncurses21-de (no description available)
ii ncurses3.0 1.9.8a 4 Video terminal manipulation: shared libraries
ii ncurses3.0-d 1.9.8a 4 Video terminal manipulation: Developer's librar
-chiark:~>
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