[maemo-developers] APT archive lockup (hildon-libs0 vs osso-af)

[From: David Weinehall]

On lör, 2008-04-12 at 09:57 -0700, ext Andrew Daviel wrote: 
> Precis: "dpkg --force-conflicts -i hildon-libs.deb" screws apt-get
[snip]

> It looks like installing hildon-libs0 has screwed future use of apt-get, 
> which is somewhat annoying.
> As my host system is Fedora, not Debian, I normally use rpm/yum not 
> dpkg/apt-get, and I don't have a manpage for apt-get (scratchbox includes 
> one for dpkg, but not apt). (note to self; add
>   MANPATH /scratchbox/users/andrew/targets/CHINOOK_ARMEL/usr/share/man
> to /etc/man.config so "man dpkg" works on host)

This is, as you say, a .deb-based system, not a .rpm-based system.

Using force when installing might be traditional in the rpm-world, but
it's a very strong indication that you're doing something wrong in
the .deb-world.

> Is there a way around this? 
> Is there a better way of installing a Bora package such as vncviewer
> on 
> Chinook ?

Make sure to install all the dependencies first?


Regards: David