On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:53:46PM -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace > some from the Debian repos. However, removing them will also remove a > bunch of libs and kde progs. E.g., apt-get remove libavcodec53 > yields: > > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 190 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > > I'm not up to reinstalling 190 packages. apt-get install that pkg > just tells me that "libavcodec53 is already the newest version". Is > there any way around this? Is it possible to easily replace the deb- > multimedia pkgs with the Debian ones? > I haven't tried this, but it seems like it would work:
1) Remove the deb-multimedia packages using dpkg instead of apt 2) Remove deb-multimedia from sources.list 3) apt-get install -f -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120916211305.gb3...@aurora.owens.net
