Re: How to get rid of a wrong package?
Why can't he do a dpkg--purge <package name the
misspelled one> then do a apt-get clean ?
Just a thought
Don
--- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> 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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