Re: dselect errors and failures
That did it. Thanks...
Brad wrote:
>
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Kelly Corbin wrote:
>
> > On my potato system, 2 files will not install from dselect.
> > nfs-server_2.2 fails as it says it is trying to overwrite a file from
> > nfs-client. Gnome-utils_1.0.1 fails as it says it is trying to
> > overwrite a file in package gnome-pim. Is there a way to force the
> > overwrite? This is really starting to bug me. Thanks.
>
> i've had the same problem recently, dselect doesn't seem to override
> properly anymore...
>
> Assuming you're using the apt dselect method, you cd to
> /var/cache/apt/archives/, then you can do dpkg -i --force-overwrite
> package.deb
>
> Be warned that any --force option could do Bad Things (which is why
> they're 'force')
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