On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:56:45AM -0500, Paul King wrote: > Dselect is now trying to make design decisions on my computer against my > wishes. I thought only GatesWare did that. But I digress. > > I have installed WordPerfect Office 2000 on my laptop. dselect reports these > as > brokenly installed packages but the apps work fine. The next time I use > dselect, it then wants to uninstall all of these so-called broken packages > when > I try to install something else. I suspect the "brokenness" is due to the > fact > that I am using Woody, and that WPO 2000 was designed back when Potato was > the > current Debian system. But the application is working fine, and dselect is > uninstalling it!!! > > How do I stop it from doing this? There must be some way to over-ride these > actions.
You can put it on hold, but I suspect that the problem is not as you describe, since I have WP8.1 which is even older on my system and dselect doesn't complain at all (it just shows it as a local/obsolete package.)
