installing libpng with dpkg?(without apt-get)

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:00:37AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:38:23PM +0100, Maximilian Gerlach said
> > Am Sonntag, den 07.11.2004, 00:01 +0200 schrieb Panos:
> > > Hello. I'm new to the list and ubuntu as well. i could use some help.
> > > i cant connect ubuntu to the internet currently. So to install software 
> > > i download it to another system and the copy it to ubuntu. i wanted to 
> > > install the newest libpng in universe to get libxine1rc6a  to work but 
> > > dpkg gives me an error that it can't overwrite the .so file of the older 
> > > libpng version. is there any way around this?
> 
> Which exact packages are you getting an error from?  Are they all from
> Ubuntu?  This is a bug in one of them.
> 
> > dpkg --force-all -i /path/to/package.deb 
> 
> Erm, there are consequences to this, recommending it to newbies without
> explaining them is not a good idea.

It's also a grossly oversized hammer. --force-overwrite would be
sufficient; did you *really* want to say --force-overwrite-dir,
--force-architecture, and --force-remove-essential?

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]