installing libpng with dpkg?(without apt-get)

Sat Nov 6 22:38:23 UTC 2004

dpkg --force-all -i /path/to/package.deb 

Greets,
Maxi


Am Sonntag, den 07.11.2004, 00:01 +0200 schrieb Panos:
> Hello. I'm new to the list and ubuntu as well. i could use some help.
> i cant connect ubuntu to the internet currently. So to install software 
> i download it to another system and the copy it to ubuntu. i wanted to 
> install the newest libpng in universe to get libxine1rc6a  to work but 
> dpkg gives me an error that it can't overwrite the .so file of the older 
> libpng version. is there any way around this?
> 
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