Refetching an installed package, lost from /var/cache/apt/archives/?

[Erik Christiansen]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:33:04PM -0700, Art Edwards wrote:
> > 
> What exactly was the response for an apt-get remove ? Did you try using
> dpkg? This has some nice force options.

Oh-Oh, there _is_ some sort of self-dependency listed after the
irrelevant libborqt comment.:

root at dvalin:~# apt-get remove xpdf-reader
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libborqt: Depends: xlibs (> 4.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
  xpdf: Depends: xpdf-reader (= 3.01-1ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Trying your suggestion is clearer:

root at dvalin:~# dpkg -r xpdf-reader
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of xpdf-reader:
 xpdf depends on xpdf-reader (= 3.01-1ubuntu1).
dpkg: error processing xpdf-reader (--remove):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xpdf-reader

But xpdf is what the package provides:

root at dvalin:~# dpkg -S `which xpdf`
xpdf-reader: /usr/bin/xpdf

So it can't be removed, because it is present?

Trying a little force also seems to do little:

root at dvalin:~# dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq xpdf-reader
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of xpdf-reader:
 xpdf depends on xpdf-reader (= 3.01-1ubuntu1).
dpkg: error processing xpdf-reader (--remove):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xpdf-reader

root at dvalin:~# dpkg -r --force-remove-essential xpdf-reader
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of xpdf-reader:
 xpdf depends on xpdf-reader (= 3.01-1ubuntu1).
dpkg: error processing xpdf-reader (--remove):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xpdf-reader

If there's a more general force option in the manpage, I'm yet to bump into it.

Many thanks for taking an interest in this one.

Erik