Re: [Hampshire] [Fwd: can't get rid of a package]

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Author: Hugo Mills
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To: testermike, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [Fwd: can't get rid of a package]

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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x57e38100.hantslug.org.uk.27032': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Mon Jan 7 12:03:29 2008 GMT
gpg: using DSA key 20ACB3BE515C238D
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:55:35PM -0600, Mike Burrows wrote:
> Re-installed the brother driver for cups.
>
> had another go at the cupswrapper and got this lot:
>
> marvin:/home/testermike/brother# dpkg -i --force-all
> --force-architecture mfc240ccupswrapper-1.0.0-9.i386.deb


No, no, no, no.

Don't use any of the --force- options unless you *really* know what
you're doing. Using --force-whatever is a recipe for completely
screwing up your packaging system.

I think I've only ever used --force when I was doing some hacking
on the dpkg source.

Hugo.

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