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Re: have I messed up package management?



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On 02/25/07 15:14, Steve Kleene wrote:
> In another thread ("sound problems on debian"), I explained that my new etch
> installation didn't drive my Intel onboard sound card.  It was suggested that
> I try upgrading from source from alsa-1.0.13 to alsa-1.0.14.  I've done this
> and have sound now but wonder what kind of pain will be ahead with the
> package-management system.
> 
> What I did was to put in alsa-base 1.0.14-rc1 from Debian experimental and
> alsa-lib and alsa-driver 1.0.14rc2 from source.  I made deb files of these
> two but couldn't install them that way because of conflicts.  I tried
> checkinstall from unstable as well as dpkg -i.
> 
> I'm a little worried what sort of mess I'll have when it comes time to
> upgrade any of the debian packages involved.  dpkg still shows libasound2
> 1.0.13-1 installed, but many of those files were overwritten by the install
> of alsa-lib from source.  alsa-driver replaced files from the package
> linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 and a couple of others.  I did save archives of the
> original files but don't know if that will be enough.
> 
> Am I likely to have a mess on my hands upgrading any of the packages
> involved?  Thanks.

Yes, you are.  :)

Getting your packages installed will/should solve that, though.

What error messages were you getting?


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