Re: How to get rid of a wrong package?
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:08:44PM +0100, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
> I have developed a piece of software and created a .deb package out of
> it. I then tried to install my new package onto a system using dpkg.
> Unfortunately I discovered that I had a typo in the dependencies of my
> new package so it has one dependency it will never be able to resolve
> because the misspelled package does not exist.
>
> Unfortunately apt-get carries this new defective package in its list of
> available packages and is resistant to any attempt to make it "forget"
> about the faulty package so I can correct and re-install it.
I've never seen that kind of thing happen. However, does 'dpkg
--forget-old-unavail' help?
> Attempts like dpkg -P or apt-get remove will try to de-install the
> package but just report it was not installed. (Which is correct as it
> could not be installed because of the defective dependency.) But even
> starting dpkg -install with a corrected .deb file failes as it obviously
> goes to the package cache, looks up the old, wrong dependency and then
> again tells me it cannot install the package because of unmet
> dependencies.
That's *very* strange, and doesn't match my understanding and experience
of dpkg at all. If the above doesn't help, please show the exact error
messages.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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