Hello Adam Heath, at Dienstag, 10. September 2002, 23:13 you wrote:
>> This leads to a separate and optional dselect package, does it? >> Why then a >> # dpkg -r dselect --force-all >> is not possible? > Because dpkg needs to support upgrades done by dselect. Dselect needs to > always be in a working state in these cases. > This pre-depends will be removed in a future release of debian. Thank You for the answer. I solved the problem already with some help from the list. It *is* possible to remove dselect separately, but my silly mistake was to have the --force switches *after* the package name. With # dpkg --force-overwrite -r dselect # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb it was possible to downgrade dpkg, a apt-get upgrade does the rest of the job. Thank You very much, great help from this list Dieter Tremel
