I'm not certain if it will work but you could manually alter the available file (found in /var/lib/dpkg). Just change the Depends: line for that package to python2.2. Hope that works for you.
Regards, Cade Cairns On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Jeff Clement wrote: > Well. Looks like I ran into my first big problem with Debian. Sniff... > > The system originally came with Python 2.1 installed and a whole schwack of > stuff has dependencies on it. I would rather not remove it. > > I am wanting to use Python 2.2. So I install Python2.2 with apt: > apt-get install python2.2 > > Yeah. So now I have Python2.1 and Python2.2 on my system. And I can install > a lot of python packages for Python2.2 with things like > apt-get install pygame-python2.2 > > However with one of my packages for Python 2.2 it has Python as a dependency > instead of Python2.2. Python is a "meta package" that is currently pointing > at 2.1. This means whenever I try and install this package it fails because > the Python package is the wrong version even though I do have Python2.2 on > the system. > > So my question is how do I get by this? Is there a way to change which > version of Python the meta Python package is pointing at? > > I tried force installing the package but next time I installed something it > decided to remove it again. > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > Jeff >
