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| Newer page: | version 38 | Last edited on Monday, February 12, 2007 1:47:19 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 37 | Last edited on Wednesday, October 4, 2006 12:40:24 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
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There is no command-line method for doing this with apt-get. I wanted to do this as I was installing a -27 kernel as well, and upon a successful reboot, I'd just remove the (outdated) -26 package. It is for this reason, and others that [Debian] have recommended using aptitude instead of apt. IanMcDonald strongly recommends using command line only for aptitude - the text GUI is awful and will probably trash your system (it did his once!). If you want a GUI tool use one provided with your distro such as Synaptic or with [Ubuntu] just use Add/remove programs in many cases.
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+!!! Forcing accepting specific configuration files
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+You can cause apt-get/dpkg to automatically answer 'yes' or 'no' to installing the newer version of a configuration file (conffile).
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+* To force accepting the new conffile: <tt>-o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew"</tt>
+* To force accepting the old conffile: <tt>-o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold"</tt>
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+You need the :: after the Options.
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+If your configuration files are managed with UCF, you set environment variables rather than using command line parameters:
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+* To force accepting the new conffile: <tt>UCF_FORCE_CONFFNEW=yes</tt>
+* To force accepting the old conffile: <tt>UCF_FORCE_CONFFOLD=yes</tt>
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+Note the extra f.
