Hello, I'm postive if this will work, but if you try it, let me know! To make 'apt' use --force options you need to have debconf installed, then edit the file /etc/apt.conf or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf to look like the following...
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";}; DPkg { Options {"--refuse-overwrite,conflicts";} }; The top line may already be in your file if you have it. To do the opposite would be like this... DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";}; DPkg { Options {"--force-overwrite,conflicts";} }; Hope that helps, and let me know please! Jimmy Richards On Thursday 12 April 2001 14:08, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:44:14PM +0530, omicron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > You might want to look at apt-zip which is intended for this situation. > > > > hi, how do i make apt-zip look into a subdirectory ? It is asking > > for a mounted partition with a noauto flag set . To requote the original > > question , if i have debian packages already downloaded in a subdirectory > > how do i safely install it without being in any danger of overwriting the > > previous packages? How do i use apt-zip for that ? >