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Re: .deb dependancy hell



On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:56:24 -0500
Richard Hoskins <rhos@adelphia.net> wrote:

> On unstable, i386.
> 
> Kind of reminds me of RPM:
> 
>    rich@lajoie:~$ sudo dpkg -r libgphoto2-2
>    dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libgphoto2-2:
>     libgphoto2-port0 depends on libgphoto2-2.
>    dpkg: error processing libgphoto2-2 (--remove):
>     dependency problems - not removing
>    Errors were encountered while processing:
>     libgphoto2-2
> 
>    rich@lajoie:~$ sudo dpkg -r libgphoto2-port0
>    dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libgphoto2-port0:
>     libgphoto2-2 depends on libgphoto2-port0 (>= 2.1.4-1).
>    dpkg: error processing libgphoto2-port0 (--remove):
>     dependency problems - not removing
>    Errors were encountered while processing:
>     libgphoto2-port0

Why not do an "apt-get remove libgphoto2-port0 libgphoto2-2"? If you
want the config files removed too, try "apt-get --purge remove
libgphoto2-port0 libgphoto202".

Dpkg has it's uses too, but apt-get is generally better for your
situation.

HTH,
Jacob


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