Re: [PLUG] using dpkg to update a package

[Chad Waters <chad@chadwaters.com>]

Oh ok. I didn't catch the package name version bump.

Actually it looks like you have another package called "virtualbox"
which is probably a metapackage that depends on  virtualbox-4.0.

C

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
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> dpkg -i gives me an error:
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> dpkg -i virtualbox-4.1_4.1.4-74291~Ubuntu~lucid_i386.deb
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> 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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