T wrote:
That could very well be I suppose. I've been hacking on my script, re-run, hack some more, etc...On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr), then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because itconflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for).It should work. That's the trick I used to play. Now I'm thinking that your whole package management system is in some kind of weird stage now...
Is there a command to force dpkg to check and rebuild the database? (This is on a test machine, so I could just reinstall it, but what would I do on a user's machine where reinstalling is, at best, a last resort?)
Michael Peek