$mkdir tmp
$dpkg-deb --extract libwxgtk2.3-python tmp
$mkdir tmp/DEBIAN
$dpkg-deb --control libwxgtk2.3-python tmp/DEBIAN
$vi tmp/DEBIAN/control
- changed the Depends and Package lines to fix dependencies
$dpkg-deb --build tmp/DEBIAN libwxgtk2.3-python2.2
$dpkg -i libwxgtk2.3-python2.2.dpkg
And it worked. I'm fairly pleased. This Debian thing is cool :) Thanks again Cade for the idea!
Jeffrey Clement wrote:
Hmm. I just tried and it's still reporting the same problem. The package would also have this information in it wouldn't it. So I tried force installing the package. Then editing the available list but sure enough next time I touch apt-get it uninstalls the package again.
Is there an easy way to modify dependencies of a dpkg file? Could I do it that way? Make a new package based on python2.2?
Jeff
Cade Cairns wrote:
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
