On Mon July 15 2024 10:47:40 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
On Monday 15 July 2024 09:39:10 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
dpkg --remove apt:amd64
Okay, so maybe we're making a little progress. Here is what I get:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of apt: tasksel depends on apt. reportbug depends on apt. python3-reportbug depends on apt. apt-listchanges depends on apt (>= 0.5.3). apt-file depends on apt.
dpkg: error processing package apt (--remove): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: apt
My mistake. I should have supplied a force flag:
dpkg --force-depends --remove apt:amd64 dpkg -i apt_2.6.1devuan1_amd64.deb
--Mike
Again, I save all my packages, but tasksel is kept in another folder. Maybe I need to do a bit of rearranging, or making a symlink (so that tasksel is included when I install apt). But later on that.
This is not needed. We won't (I hope) be removing tasksel and friends.
--Mike