>> dpkg will never do that, it always uses the dependencies from the package that you are trying to install.
I need to correct myself. Obviously I made a mistake when re-building the package file. It tried again and it worked now. So I am done from a tactical perspective. But still I wonder how it might be possible to get rid of a package that apt came to know through a dpkg -i operation. What I mean is, where does apt store that list of available packages and how does one edit it? (Just in case. I always like to understand what's going on under the hood.) Torsten -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Wichert Akkerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Januar 2003 16:33 An: Torsten Schlabach Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: How to get rid of a wrong package? 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. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wiggy.net/ A random hacker
