Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I need to tell dselect or dpkg... , that I have lynx > installed but not by debian packages, so it wont > complain dependancies with others, for example..; Is > there the best way to fake it? I know a package > somewhere but it is rather complicated to do even I > would rather press Q to force dselect than make it :-)
I think the equivs package should be able to do this. $ apt-cache show equivs Package: equivs Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 51 Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 2.0.4 Depends: perl|perl5, debhelper, dpkg-dev, devscripts, make, fakeroot Filename: pool/main/e/equivs/equivs_2.0.4_all.deb Size: 18178 MD5sum: 835d97f567fe0cf36700ebf012082993 Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian packages, which only contain dependency information. . This way, you can make the Debian package management system believe that equivalents to packages on which other packages do depend on are actually installed. . Another possibility is creation of a meta package. When this package contains a dependency as "Depends: a, b, c", then installing this package will also select packages a, b and c. Instead of "Depends", you can also use "Recommends:" or "Suggests:" for less demanding dependency. . Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please note as well that using it is not the recommended way of dealing with broken dependencies. Better file a bug report instead. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
