Re: dpkg force options

[Pollywog <croak@shadypond.com>]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:21:12 -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball said:

> Pollywog wrote:
>  
>  > I am trying to install the netscape4 package, but it complains that
>  > xpm4g is not installed.  The latter package has been replaced by
>  > another which IS installed, but netscape4 won't hear of it.
>  > 
>  > I tried 'dpkg --force-conflicts -i netscape4_xyz.i386.deb' but I
>  > still can't get it installed.  
>   
>  Use --force-depends, not --force-conflicts.
>  
>  Or better yet, don't install an out-of-date package that is about to
>  be removed from testing and unstable.  If you want the latest netscape
>  4 (4.76), either get the meta "netscape" package, or install all the
>  non-meta packages whose versions are 4.76-1 and names are navigator[..]
>  or communicator[..] (depending on which one you want).

I will try the last alternative.  I did not see an installer called
"communicator", though.

thanks

--
Andrew