Re: Re: Moo! 9th preview of APT 1.1 released: Go and test new supercow powers
Hi all,
On a chance I went to see the list and came across this comment by
josh triplett
"Thank you for this! In the past, I'd often used "dpkg --unpack
foo*.deb" and then ran apt to fix up the dependencies. This is a
massive improvement (not least of which that it presumably respects
pre-depends and conflicts). " - Josh Triplett.
Could you explain what is the unpack command and where/how do you use it ?
There have been times when a package is not been seen by apt when
updating index or do not have network connectivity and have to
download packages via sneakernet (i.e. another machine and usb-drives
and all) and try to install and if it fails to purge it and get
whatever dependant packages it shouts about with specific versions and
when that is done it installs smoothly.
@Josh could you help explain ?
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