Re: [PLUG] using dpkg to update a package

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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dpkg -i gives me an error:

dpkg -i virtualbox-4.1_4.1.4-74291~Ubuntu~lucid_i386.deb

dpkg: regarding virtualbox-4.1_4.1.4-74291~Ubuntu~lucid_i386.deb containing virtualbox-4.1:
 virtualbox-4.1 conflicts with virtualbox
  virtualbox-4.0 provides virtualbox and is present and installed.
dpkg: error processing virtualbox-4.1_4.1.4-74291~Ubuntu~lucid_i386.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing virtualbox-4.1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-4.1_4.1.4-74291~Ubuntu~lucid_i386.deb

Presumably it's because it's going from 4.0 to 4.1 ?

Eric


On 11/14/2011 01:07 PM, Chad Waters wrote:
> dpkg -i
> 
> C
> 
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
> 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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