astronaute@astronaute-desktop:/usr/local/games/frozen-bubble$ dpkg --force-help frozen-bubble_2.0.0-1_i386.deb dpkg forcing options - control behaviour when problems found: warn but continue: --force-,,... stop with error: --refuse-,,... | --no-force-,... Forcing things: all [!] Set all force options downgrade [*] Replace a package with a lower version configure-any Configure any package which may help this one hold Process incidental packages even when on hold bad-path PATH is missing important programs, problems likely not-root Try to (de)install things even when not root overwrite Overwrite a file from one package with another overwrite-diverted Overwrite a diverted file with an undiverted version bad-verify Install a package even if it fails authenticity check depends-version [!] Turn dependency version problems into warnings depends [!] Turn all dependency problems into warnings confnew [!] Always use the new config files, don't prompt confold [!] Always use the old config files, don't prompt confdef [!] Use the default option for new config files if one is available, don't prompt. If no default can be found, you will be prompted unless one of the confold or confnew options is also given confmiss [!] Always install missing config files conflicts [!] Allow installation of conflicting packages architecture [!] Process even packages with wrong architecture overwrite-dir [!] Overwrite one package's directory with another's file remove-reinstreq [!] Remove packages which require installation remove-essential [!] Remove an essential package WARNING - use of options marked [!] can seriously damage your installation. Forcing options marked [*] are enabled by default. astronaute@astronaute-desktop:/usr/local/games/frozen-bubble$