Florent Rougon writes ("Re: merging dselect bugs resulting from "dpkg
-iGROEB""):
> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I use dpkg -iGROEB on the dpkg-ftp download area without problem, too.
>
> Sorry for my ignorance, what is this "dpkg-ftp download area", if you
> don't mind explaining a bit?..
If you use dpkg-ftp [I]nstall, it downloads the files to
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian. Then if dpkg -iGROEB doesn't work
well enough you can handhold it by dpkg -i'ing individual .debs. It's
not sophisticated but it's very unlikely to break your system.
Ian.
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