On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
In same directory:
dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb
Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the following output:
neuromancer:~# dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb dpkg: regarding metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb containing metalog:
syslog-ng conflicts with system-log-daemon
metalog provides system-log-daemon and is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing metalog
Errors were encountered while processing:
metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb
neuromancer:~#
How can I uninstall syslog-ng and install metalog? dpkg won't let me uninstall syslog-ng before I install metalog because a plethora of packages depend on system-log-daemon.
TIA.
# dpkg --force-remove-essential --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends -r syslog-ng
# dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb
use force options with extreme care, but they are occasionally useful...(Only one of the force options is needed, but I am not sure which ;))
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