Re: dpkg force options
Pollywog wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:21:12 -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball said:
> > 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 Or better yet, don't install an out-of-date package that is about to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.
A "communicator" package exists in stable, testing, and unstable. It's
in contrib/web. Make sure apt is setup to get contrib and non-free
packages.
This is easily checked by going to
http://packages.debian.org/packagename
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