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Re: Bug#50516: --download-only should ignore dependencies



On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Andrew Pimlott wrote:

> I cannot install pcmcia-cs because of dependency conflicts, but I expect at
> least to be able to download it.

download only is not a feature intended to download arbitary files, but to
provide a pause after a normal run. Really it doesn't make sense within
what APT provides to download-only a broken set of packages.
 
> # apt-get -f --download-only install pcmcia-cs
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

> Also, I don't know why it suggested using -f when I had.

It suggested using -f with no packages, you used -f with packages. If you
do that then you must specify a complete 'soltuion' to the dependency
problem.

Jason


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