Re: Simultaneous Downgrade and Remove?

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Jeff Pitman wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 September 2004 13:13, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> > For manual purposes only, I was wondering if there was a way to issue
> > an apt-get command such that it would both perform the Downgrade and
> > a Removal of a package.
> 
> The man page says to append a hyphen before the package name, but that 
> doesn't work:

Append means after, before :)

> 
> $ apt-get -c /var/lib/mach/states/fedora-2-i386-mint/apt.conf install -y 
> --force-yes -- modutils=2.4.26-16 popt=1.9.1-0.3 libacl=2.2.7-5 
> rpm-devel=4.3.1-0.3 info=4.6-3 rpm-build=4.3.1-0.3 net-tools=1.60-25 
> krb5-libs=1.3.3-1 libattr=2.4.1-4 rpm=4.3.1-0.3 tzdata=2003d-2 
> beecrypt=3.1.0-3 initscripts=7.53-1 make=3.80-3 -librpm4.3
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Selected version 1:3.80-3 for make
> E: Couldn't find package -librpm4.3
> 
> Let me know what's best in this situation..

Use librpm4.3- (if that's really the name of the package)

	- Panu -