On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:39:42AM -0500, Dave Sherohman (esper at sherohman.org) wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:07:40AM -0500, Amy Tanner wrote: > > Is there an apt-get equivalent of rpm's --replacefiles? > > I don't know what --replacefiles does, but, judging from the name, I > suspect that 'apt-get install --reinstall package' might be what you > want (force package reinstallation even if it's the same version). No, actually, --replacefiles will replace files installed by other packages. That's what I'm trying to do. apt-get bombs with this error when a file from the package I'm attempting to install conflicts with a file from a previously-installed package: E: Sub-process /bin/rpm returned with an error code (1) -- Amy Tanner amy at real-time.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 524 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020521/3580a937/attachment.pgp