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?

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