Re: Ok, please tell me how to install a package without the dpkg
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Benj wrote:
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> Ok thanks, and because I would like usually to upgrade stuff, am I sure that
> the new files will correctly overwrite the old files in their specific
> directories ?
no!
if you're going to upgrade debian pacakges, you'll do better if you
dpkg --purge old-packages
debian enforces files going to specific locations that not always are
followed by original packages, things like /etc,/var,/usr/lib ...
[]s,
Mario O.de Menezes "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
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