Re: [Jack-Devel] [jack2] assertions on runtime errors

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 09:52:37AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:

> > > (please try latest 1.9.9. from git)
> >
> > jackd --version
> > jackdmp 1.9.8
> > Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
> > Copyright 2004-2011 Grame.
> >
> > uninstalling the ubuntu libjack uninstalls a huge number of programs ...
> >
> apt has a problem with not having an easy way to remove a package without
> also removing things that depend on it. its one of the few notably nice
> things about rpm's "--nodepends" option.

JFTR: You can use dpkg -r --force-depends or even --force-all to
uninstall something without touching back- and forward-dependencies.

However, next time you dist-upgrade the system, the then missing
dependency is reinstalled, so the approach is temporary at best.

The "proper" way of handling the situation at hand is to overwrite the
installed versions by providing the correct prefix (/usr/) and nowadays
also the correct libdir in case of multiarch, e.g. /usr/lib/x86_64/ when
compiling jackd manually. (you have already mentioned the first, I
wanted to make folks aware of the latter)


Cheers

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