A Concise apt-get / dpkg Primer for New Debian Users (DebianPlanet) [LWN.net]

BlogSpot has a Concise apt-get / dpkg primer for new Debian users. "Debian is one of the earliest Linux distribution around. It caught the public's fancy because of the ease of installing and uninstalling applications on it. When many other linux distributions were bogged down in dependency hell, Debian users were shielded from these problems owing to Debian's superior package handling capablities using apt-get." (Found on DebianPlanet)

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A Concise apt-get / dpkg Primer for New Debian Users (DebianPlanet)

Posted Dec 15, 2005 12:10 UTC (Thu) by grouch (guest, #27289) [Link] (1 responses)

Some anonymous person advocated using "dpkg --force" in comments after that primer. I've been using Debian since Slink and have never, ever had to resort to dpkg --force-things. Even the man page for dpkg warns that you can break your whole system with that. If you have to resort to it, you've probably already broken the famously stable package management with poorly thought out meddling.

A Concise apt-get / dpkg Primer for New Debian Users (DebianPlanet)

Posted Dec 22, 2005 18:32 UTC (Thu) by wolfrider (guest, #3105) [Link]

When's the last time you tried to upgrade KDE? --force-overwrite is pretty much mandatory there.