David B. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To quote Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ># Well, for some stupid reason, I decided to give the Gnome packages ># from Helix a try. After re-starting X-Windows, I noticed that my Eterms ># don't have scrollbars and scroll-arrows. My first assumption is that ># it's related to Helix's version of the various imlib packages. Now ># though, I can't remove them, at least without removing a bunch of other ># packages that depend on them. ># ># I've tried different "--ignore-depends=???" options, "--force", etc ># with no luck. I'm sure there is a way to force the removal of *just* the ># items I specify, isn't there ?? If so, could someone explain ?? > >Yup - use dpkg. 'dpkg --force-depends <package>'.
Urgh. --force-depends is *usually* a bad idea, unless there are actually bugs in the packages in question. Much better is to download the Debian packages that the original poster had previously and 'dpkg -i --force-downgrade' them. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
