Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:17:15PM +0200, Oguz Altun wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 March 2003 15:34, Sharninder wrote:
> > as i said .. i have already mirrored the
> > ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1/Debian/* hierarchy using wget -c -r
> > ...Now i want to use this to install kde3.1 to my desktop. There are
> > more than 250MBs of debs. Can't I just give the name of some
> > metapackage like kde .. and install everything.
>
> This is dirty but it worked for me:
> if you have all the deb packages in your hard disc, go to that directory and
> issue this:
>
> find . -name '*deb' -exec dpkg --force-all -i {} \;
Never ever ever ever ever use --force-all. Ever. Once upon a time
somebody produced some broken KDE packages which contained a file (not a
directory) called /usr/sbin by mistake. This would normally have been OK
because dpkg would have refused to install them, but one person
installed with --force-all, which includes --force-overwrite-dir.
Suddenly his /usr/sbin directory disappeared to be replaced by a useless
file. You can imagine that it took him a while to restore his system.
> Use your at your own risk though.
This is actively dangerous. --force-depends is one thing (somewhat
unwise, but perhaps not too bad if you know you intend to fix everything
up afterwards); --force-all is quite another.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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