On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:49:40PM +0100, Romnea Kolap Pin wrote: > Hello: > > I have the next problem, is there any way to say to Debian "this package > is yet provided"?. > > I mean, if I compile mplayer and I want to install the mozilla-mplayer > package, which depends on mplayer, how could I say to my distro "hey! man, > I have also one mplayer"?. Is there any configuration file?. > > I could make a package with my own mplayer, but I think it would be really > difficult because it happens in sereval cases, for instance: in java > virtual machine, in ati drivers, etc. > > Romnea.
The best solution I have found this far is equivs. It allows you to create pseudo packages in order to circumvent package restrictions in apt. The process is comparatively staight-forward; you can typically get a pseudo package installed in a few minutes. As a little side note, you may want to look at java-package for your Java VM needs. It's quite handy, actually. HTH --j
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