Eric at Lucii.org on 14 Nov 2011 08:47:50 -0800


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[PLUG] using dpkg to update a package 

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I use virtual box installed from a downloaded .deb file

I want to replace
   virtualbox-4.0_4.0.4-70112_Ubuntu_lucid_i386.deb
with
   virtualbox-4.1_4.1.4-74291~Ubuntu~lucid_i386.deb

Is there a single command that will replace the existing 4.0 package with 4.1 or do I have to remove the old one first?
I was thinking that dpkg --update-avail might be right but the description seems more like it updates the ->package<- instead of the installed software.

Eric
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