Quote Originally Posted by rusty
The force overwrite did the tirick. Could the force overwrite option be used with the package_name to accomplish the same thing ?
I believe you need the entire package name including the version number and path to the file.
If I RTFM it seems you could, but in addition to the files that cause problems one could get rid of configuration files that are better off left alone (imagine CUPS).
Definitely not to be used any more than necessary that is for sure.

I guess the lessons learned is 1} Use thes-s option when apt-getting to check for dependency problems and 2} that doesn't always catch everything.

Anyway thanks again.
1} Yes always use the -s first and actually take a minute to look at the output to see what it will do. 2} No having to force overwrite is a packaging bug not a dependency problem.