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

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:04:32PM -0500, Eythan Weg wrote:
>   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. 

If you looked carefully, the dpkg message said something about "using
--auto-deconfigure may help".

Anyway, using APT is definitely the way to go!  Read apt_preferences(5).

   Julian