G'Day ! I installed my entire laptop using dpkg. It let me chode the packages I needed without getting bogged down in dselect (dselect is mighty slow on a 486 ;-) It also let me force package installs. For example I installed GTK+ from source, so I had to force install the gtk_glarea package, because the database did not know GTK was already installed.
The man page is really good about explaining the switches.
cheers,
Jim Parker
Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death .... It is far more important
than that !!!
Jacob Meuser
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02/21/01
02:13 AM
Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages
are installed? I set up a small system, using potato, and am adding
several packages from source. I added stuff like glib-1.2.8, tcl-8.32,
tk8.3.2, etc. How can I tell apt that these packages are installed?
Or at least make it think the potato version is installed.
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