Hello,
I'm postive if this will work, but if you try it, let me know! To make 'apt'
use --force options you need to have debconf installed, then edit the file
/etc/apt.conf or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf to look like the following...
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
DPkg
{
Options {"--refuse-overwrite,conflicts";}
};
The top line may already be in your file if you have it.
To do the opposite would be like this...
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
DPkg
{
Options {"--force-overwrite,conflicts";}
};
Hope that helps, and let me know please!
Jimmy Richards
On Thursday 12 April 2001 14:08, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:44:14PM +0530, omicron
(omicron@omicron.dyndns.org) wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > You might want to look at apt-zip which is intended for this situation.
> >
> > hi, how do i make apt-zip look into a subdirectory ? It is asking
> > for a mounted partition with a noauto flag set . To requote the original
> > question , if i have debian packages already downloaded in a subdirectory
> > how do i safely install it without being in any danger of overwriting the
> > previous packages? How do i use apt-zip for that ?
>