Re: [tlug] Dependancy hell

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@??>]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:32:43 +0900
Dave M G <martin@??> wrote:

> Botond, Godwin,
> 
> Thank you for replying.
> 
> Botond Botyanszki wrote:
> > I doubt that there is any significant difference between 0ubuntu1 and
> > 0ubuntu3, so just go ahead and install it with --force-depends. It should
> > be corrected on the next upgrade.
> >   
> "--force-depends" is a dpkg command line option, right? So that means I 
> have to first download the package and then use dpkg, right?
> 
> I looked in the help for apt-get to see if I could use it to download 
> the package without installing it, so that I could then in turn use dpkg 
> with the force option to install it.
> 
> The help file said this option was available:
> 
> -d Download only - do NOT install or unpack archives
> 
> But none of these worked:
> 
> sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev -d
> sudo apt-get install -d libgtk2.0-dev
> sudo apt-get -d libgtk2.0-dev
> sudo apt-get libgtk2.0-dev -d
> 
> I think what I want to do here is download the libgimp2.0-dev and 
> libgtk2.0-dev packages and see if I can force an install with dpkg.
> 
> But how do I get the packages onto my local system to do that?

This does work:
 apt-get install --download-only PACKAGE
Downloaded packages are stored under /var/cache/apt/archives/
Having done that, the following should work too:
 dpkg --force-depends /var/cache/apt/archives/PACKAGE-VER.deb

-- 
boti

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