Re: Removing stubborn package

1997-05-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 18 May 1997, lars wrote: Thank you all for your pointers to TeX/LaTeX references, but can someone now tell me how to force the removal of the xypic package? dpkg -i tetex-base_etc tells me what to do to remove it, but it doesn't work at all. Here is the

Removing stubborn package

1997-05-18 Thread lars
Dear fellow debian-user recipients, When I try to install tetex-base, it searches for old tex packages, and it keeps telling me that xypic is installed, and that to uninstall it i need to dpkg --purge --force-depends xypic However, that doesn't work, and it just sayd that the subprocess

Re: Removing stubborn package

1997-05-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
lars == lars [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lars Also, are there any TeX primers out there? A book perhaps? I opted to install NTeX, rather than TeTeX, in my system, since it comes with a more complete set of documentation. NTeX includes a copy of Donald Knuth's 'The TeXbook', in TeX source

Re: Removing stubborn package

1997-05-18 Thread lars
Thank you all for your pointers to TeX/LaTeX references, but can someone now tell me how to force the removal of the xypic package? dpkg -i tetex-base_etc tells me what to do to remove it, but it doesn't work at all. Here is the output: # dpkg --purge --force-depends xypic (Reading database ...