Re: [vox-tech] Getting apt-get to not install certain packages

2010-03-11 Thread Brian Lavender
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.

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Re: [vox-tech] Getting apt-get to not install certain packages

2010-03-11 Thread Henry House
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.

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Re: [vox-tech] Getting apt-get to not install certain packages

2010-03-10 Thread Alex Mandel
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

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