installing libpng with dpkg?(without apt-get)

[Panos]

Panos wrote:

> well just libxine1rc6a. it depends on a newer version of libpng than  
> shipped with the preview cd. thats the only prob i had. although aside 
> from that i also d/l the udeb package instead of the normal one(oops). 
> I did this with the udeb package stupidly enough luckily without any 
> consequences(i noticed it just then and reinstalled the actual libpng 
> from the cd before rebooting). i now have the actual libpng.dep though 
> and am gonna try installing it later. im using libxine1rca5  for now. 
> which works fine. dvd playback is good(unlike suse 9.1).
> P.S im in love with apt-get(even though i can't connect ubuntu to the 
> net). I was trying to install the linuxant drivers when it asked for 
> the kernel headers. so when i installed those apt-get finished the 
> linuxant install automatically(very cool). Windblows has nothing 
> comparable to it and it makes installing apps extremly sinple. all 
> this talk how Linux is not userfriendly is nonesense imho. It's just 
> different and needs you to learn a lot of things from scratch (which 
> on windblows most people know how to do with closed eyes due to long 
> term exposure). Panos
> Rob Weir wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:38:23PM +0100, Maximilian Gerlach said
>>  
>>
>>> 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?
>>>>     
>>>
>>
>> Which exact packages are you getting an error from?  Are they all from
>> Ubuntu?  This is a bug in one of them.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> dpkg --force-all -i /path/to/package.deb   
>>
>>
>> Erm, there are consequences to this, recommending it to newbies without
>> explaining them is not a good idea.
>>
>> -rob
>>
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