Re: apt-get: how to circumvent automatic removal

2004-06-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Daniel Klein wrote: > The thing I was trying to do was quite simply this: I wanted to run a > second ftp server on another port range. Next to the already installed > proftpd I wanted to run a vsftpd. However, the cow thought that, 'well, > that's a new ftp server! He won't need the old one! Let

Re: apt-get: how to circumvent automatic removal

2004-06-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:54:49AM +0200, Daniel Klein wrote: > The thing I was trying to do was quite simply this: I wanted to run a > second ftp server on another port range. Next to the already installed > proftpd I wanted to run a vsftpd. However, the cow thought that, 'well, > that's a new

Re: apt-get: how to circumvent automatic removal

2004-06-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 03:36:07AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:53:08PM +0200, Daniel Klein wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > how do I tell apt-get "I want to install this ftp server, but please > > > don't delete the old one

Re: apt-get: how to circumvent automatic removal

2004-06-27 Thread Daniel Klein
Hi Daniel, if you install package X and in doings so, apt says that it will remove package Y, remember that this is the basis for the super-cow powers that apt has: package dependency issueses. Either these 2 packages can not be installed at the same time or these 2 packages privide the same virtu

Re: apt-get: how to circumvent automatic removal

2004-06-27 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:53:08PM +0200, Daniel Klein wrote: > > Hi, > > > > how do I tell apt-get "I want to install this ftp server, but please > > don't delete the old one I have running"? Use: dpkg --force-conflicts > There may be some way to

Re: apt-get: how to circumvent automatic removal

2004-06-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:53:08PM +0200, Daniel Klein wrote: > Hi, > > how do I tell apt-get "I want to install this ftp server, but please > don't delete the old one I have running"? > Hi Daniel, if you install package X and in doings so, apt says that it will remove package Y, remember that t

Re: apt-get: how to circumvent automatic removal

2004-06-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Daniel Klein (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > how do I tell apt-get "I want to install this ftp server, but please > don't delete the old one I have running"? You can use the --force-options to override the removal, however if the two packages contain files with the same name and locations (

apt-get: how to circumvent automatic removal

2004-06-27 Thread Daniel Klein
Hi, how do I tell apt-get "I want to install this ftp server, but please don't delete the old one I have running"? Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]