Re: Bug#2545: dpkg locks up with conflict
Richard Kettlewell writes ("Bug#2545: dpkg locks up with conflict"):
> You need to use dpkg -B, apparently. I *think* that what you want is:
> dpkg -B -i svgalib1.deb aout-svgalib.deb
> but would be interested to hear the results of someone trying this -
> last time I got my hands on a relatively unmangled system I didn't
> know this and hacked it using --force-*.
>
> Perhaps dpkg should produce a more informative error message in this
> situation?
It will do so in 1.1.3. I'm closing this bug report; I'm convinced
that -B (= --auto-deconfigure) will help in this situation.
Ian.
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