[Slackbuilds-users] LibreOffice vs libreoffice (confusing, too vague)

Konrad J Hambrick kjhambrick at gmail.com
Sat Apr 8 12:10:50 UTC 2023


On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 6:57 AM Andrzej Telszewski <andrzej at telszewski.com>
wrote:

> `pkgtools` are (specifically) designed in a way that if one package
> over-installs another, there is no corruption in the database.
>
> You just need to uninstall the old package, which can be safely done after
> the new package is installed.
>
> Actually, this is how the `upgradepkg` works under the hood.
> It over-installs one package on the other, then removes the old one.
>

Thanks for the info Andrzej !

-- kjh
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/attachments/20230408/67fa04be/attachment-0001.htm>


More information about the SlackBuilds-users mailing list