On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:34:36AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > Thanks Mark. Unfortunately (fortunately?), "apt-get install -f > debconf pcmcia-cs" says that there is nothing to be done. It is when > I run another apt-get command (say, apt-get upgrade) which pukes > during the preconfig.
Second pass: Download the .deb's for pcmcia-cs and debconf, and use dpkg directly. You might have to use your --force-depends idea, but provided that you are in single user mode when you're doing all of this, and provided you re-install the thing you forceably removed, you should be okay. However, I think that dpkg will let you re-install a package over an existing package of the same version number. > Without more information, I feel my only recourse is to do "apt-get > remove debconf" and reinstall it, along with the 100 or so other > packages that depend on it. Or, perhaps use dpkg --force-depends to > remove just debconf, or would I then be screwed? I don't think you need to remove all of debconf's dependencies, just debconf itself. M
