{"id":15,"date":"2006-06-18T12:36:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T09:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.proekspert.ee\/urmet\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-06-18T12:37:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T09:37:05","slug":"file-xxx-is-also-in-package-yyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urmet.sytes.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/file-xxx-is-also-in-package-yyy\/","title":{"rendered":"file xxx is also in package yyy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was stuck the other day trying to update the Debian packages. libvisual0.2 wouldn&#8217;t install beacuase the library file (or one of the links) was also in libvisual0. Even if I tried to remove libvisual0 with aptitude or apt-get, it wouldn&#8217;t go away, because there was a current install broken.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily there was a solution.<\/p>\n<pre># dpkg -r libvisual0<\/pre>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t dug into Debian package management too much (yet?), but I suppose dpkg operates on a level that doesn&#8217;t care about dependencies and install states. Which in this case was extremely useful.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, it took me quite a few hours to figure this one out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was stuck the other day trying to update the Debian packages. libvisual0.2 wouldn&#8217;t install beacuase the library file (or one of the links) was also in libvisual0. Even if I tried to remove libvisual0 with aptitude or apt-get, it wouldn&#8217;t go away, because there was a current install broken. Luckily there was a solution.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urmet.sytes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urmet.sytes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urmet.sytes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urmet.sytes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urmet.sytes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urmet.sytes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urmet.sytes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urmet.sytes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urmet.sytes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}