On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > would guess > that a dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq xpm4g will help here.
(It didn't, actually.) But thanks for giving me the hint where to look -- I fixed all but one dependency problem by copying all my archive .debs into /tmp, and doing a: dpkg -i --force-conflicts ./*deb on the lot of them together, and let them fight it out amongst themselves. This then left me with dependency problems with only one package -- xbase-clients -- which I *think* I've solved by a simultaneous forced apt-get install of xbase-clients and xserver-xfree86. (At least the install process didn't bitch about anything and exited cleanly.) Unfortunately, by this time I'd uninstalled most of my xfonts -- so I'll let the list know if it worked when I've got them back in place. > only dpkg --force-help will get you out of this. Very true. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. msw -- Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.co.uk/ - Share your knowledge. It's one way to achieve immortality. - [Please direct any comments off-list -- I'm not subscribed]