On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, James Harper <[email protected]> wrote: > I am running Debian Jessie and want to install the latest Zabbix server > package. It is packaged in zabbix's own repository, as Debian doesn't yet > package the latest version. > > Because the Zabbix provided package is built against Wheezy, it depends on > libsnmp15, which isn't available in Jessie. I used equivs to build a dummy > package, but libsnmp30 is flagged as breaking libsnmp15, so my dummy > package won't install. > > Any suggestions on how I can get around this, without building from source? > I'm hoping I could put some flags in my dummy libsnmp15 package that would > allow it to install despite the flags in libsnmp30 that say it can't. > > I'm reluctant to use override flags for installing because they just come > back and bite later on.
All these things you are describing with dummy packages don't seem likely to result in a reliable working system. Why is it so difficult to rebuild Zabbix from source? Is there some bigger problem here you didn't mention? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
