On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 04:14:00PM +0000, Michael wrote: > Thanks very much for your help and suggestions. > > I am running Debian 12 on a desktop. > > My aim is to set up and use a TOTP authenticator app called Ente Auth. > > I ran, as root :- > > dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb
[...] > dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.3.1-x86_64.deb I don't know who packaged this, but at least they don't seem to know how to make a Debian package. The names seem to suggest different versions of the "same" package, but as far as Debian is concerned, they are just totally different packages. See here [1] for how Debian packages are supposed to be named. In short, <package>_<version>_<architecture>.deb, separated by underscores. Possibly, ente-auth_v4.2.8_x86_64.deb might be a good package name (but we don't know what on earth is *in* those things, that might be as wrong as the name!) A newer version will replace the older version's files. In your case, if you try to install the second one... > This should overwrite the previous executable enteauth. ...and it tries to overwrite files installed by the first one, you *should* have got an error message from dpkg. Did you? Cheers [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/pkg-basics.en.html#pkgname -- t
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