Re: apt-get error

[Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@ca.astro.it>]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:

> Hi, it is there but dpkg -x *** won't extract, what's the best way?

never _ever_ install something with dpkg -x! This calls dpkg-deb and
just unpacks the contents of an archive without registering them in 
the package system nor doing any needed cnfiguration! Do read the
man page of dpkg and use it properly, since it is seriously capable
of hosing your system is used in the wrong way. The right way to 
install a package with dpkg is "dpkg -i", to remove one "dpkg -r", 
to remove the package and all its configurations "dpkg --purge".

Let me stress this again, do read and understand the man pages of dpkg 
before using it directly, unless you don't care risking to make your
system unusable.

Bye
Giacomo

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