Re: Bug#299644: tetex-bin: dependency problems with upgrading to tetex 3.0

[weg@indiscrete.org (Eythan Weg)]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:16:24 +0000,
 Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net> wrote:

  On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:34:33PM -0500, Eythan Weg wrote:
    > Package: tetex-bin
    > Version: 3.0-2
    > Severity: normal
    > 
    > 
    > Upgrading from tetex 2.02 to 3.0-2 was met with dependencies issues.  
    > Packages which rely on tex prevented the upgrade.  Even when there
    > were no other packages than tetex upgrade was impossible.  My solution
    > was to purge tetex altogether.  Here is a collection responses from
    > dpkg  separated by ================.  I had to sequentially remove
    > packages and retry the installation.
    
  Unfortunately, you have not shown the dpkg command lines you used.
    
  Have you tried the following dpkg commands/sequence of commands
  (untested)?
    
  (1) dpkg --auto-deconfigure -i tetex-bin_3.0-2_<arch>.deb \
        tetex-base_3.0-2_all.deb
    
  or:
    
  (2) dpkg --force-depends -i tetex-bin_3.0-2_<arch>.deb \
        tetex-base_3.0-2_all.deb
    
  How does apt do it?
    
     Julian

Sorry for the ambiguity. I alternated between 
dpkg -i tetex-bin tetex-base tetex-extra 
which indicated the presence of a dependency and 
dpkg --purge "the offending package"
At the very end even when only tetex was installed
dpkg balked. 

Eythan