On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:45:10AM -0500, Robert Citek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David Dooling <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It should not get confused, it will likely just state that a newer > > version than the one available from the repository is installed. > > I downloaded the .deb and tried installing. dpkg refused to install > it as the existing version had to be removed first.
That is expected (apt does this for you, in a forcible way since removing may break dependencies that the subsequent install will fix). My experience in doing things like this (other than you don't have to do it too often (most people make the repos)) is that if you are installing a newer package than the one available in the repo, it shows up as normal. If you are installing a package that is not available in the repo, it shows up as an ``Obsolete and Locally Created Package''. If a newer one shows up in the repo at some point, apt does the right thing. -- David Dooling http://www.politigenomics.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
