Re: mixing stable and testing

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Vikki Roemer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > In same directory:
> >
> > dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc
> > cd metalog_0.7beta
> > dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
> > cd ..
> > dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb
>
> Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the following output:
> neuromancer:~# dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb 
> dpkg: regarding metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb containing metalog:
>  syslog-ng conflicts with system-log-daemon
>   metalog provides system-log-daemon and is to be installed.
> dpkg: error processing metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb (--install):
>  conflicting packages - not installing metalog
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb
> neuromancer:~# 
>
> How can I uninstall syslog-ng and install metalog?  dpkg won't let me
> uninstall syslog-ng before I install metalog because a plethora of packages
> depend on system-log-daemon.

Maybe apt-get will work.

cp metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives
apt-get install -t testing metalog