On 21-Sep-05, at 2:09 PM, Robert Anderson wrote:
I have the same issue. Forgive my ignorance, but exactly what must one do to resolve this, assuming that the equivs package is installed. Thanks,
David asked some more questions off list but the gist of my response is (1) to make sure the two packages equivalent (installing the same files to the same places) and then (2) use equivs to create an empty package that tells debian you do have the functionality of libqt3 installed.
(1) You can see what files your installed package has supplied by going dpkg -L libqt3c102 and you can find what the debian version supplies by searching for it at http://packages.qa.debian.org/common/index.html.
(2) If they're indeed equivalent you can follow the instructions at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html to create a new package, who's name doesn't matter, that claims to provide libqt3-mt or whatever it is you're missing. If you want to be extra clever you can make your equiv package depend on the ubuntu equivalent. You then install that equivalent package and voila, no more dependancy problem.
I've never used equivs and I don't run ubuntu but over the past year or two I've gotten the hang of debian so you can do what I'm saying and not hose your system irreversibly. Also, I may not be explaining this in the clearest way possible. It's one of those things that's obvious once you get it and it's hard to go back and see how someone else wouldn't.
- George
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