Re: [vox-tech] Getting apt-get to not install certain packages
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:32:19AM -0800, Henry House wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 March 2010, Richard Harke wrote: > > Of course, I still want to install everyhing I want. I want ot install a > > package but apt-get > > wants to install mesa as well. I don't want or need mesa and in fact I > > imagine it will compromise > > my Nvidia installation. > > I suggest you have a look at the equivs package. It is designed to > create a fake package to satistify a dependency in situations such as > yours. I second Henry's recommendation. You stand to fubar your system if you remove those packages. If you have nvidia-glx-new installed, I believe it will handle all the dependencies. -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Getting apt-get to not install certain packages
On Wednesday, 10 March 2010, Richard Harke wrote: > Of course, I still want to install everyhing I want. I want ot install a > package but apt-get > wants to install mesa as well. I don't want or need mesa and in fact I > imagine it will compromise > my Nvidia installation. I suggest you have a look at the equivs package. It is designed to create a fake package to satistify a dependency in situations such as yours. -- Henry House +1 530 848-1238 ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Getting apt-get to not install certain packages
Richard Harke wrote: > Of course, I still want to install everyhing I want. I want ot install a > package but apt-get > wants to install mesa as well. I don't want or need mesa and in fact I > imagine it will compromise > my Nvidia installation. > > Richard Harke > That depends entirely on which mesa package it is. Just because your machine installs some mesa libraries doesn't mean it's going to switch X to mesa if you've specified to use nvidia. On my box running with the nvidia drivers I see more than 10 mesa related packages that are installed, presumably because they were needed for some apps to work. While mesa may be a video card driver it also appears to be OpenGL libraries. If the package has it in the depends category then chances are you would need the mesa libs to compile it. If it's in the recommended section, then you can change the apt settings to not install recommended packages(a default on change on recent ubuntu). Alex ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech