Re: How to get rid of a wrong package?

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Torsten Schlabach wrote:
> But even starting dpkg -install with a corrected .deb file failes as
> it obviously goes to the package cache, looks up the old, wrong
> dependency and then again tells me it cannot install the package
> because of unmet dependencies.

dpkg will never do that, it always uses the dependencies from the
package that you are trying to install. I suspect you have another
problem, but without detailed information on your problem and a log
of what you trying to do it is impossible to say what the problem
is.

Wichert.

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