Re: [Sheflug] dpkg --force-depends, KDE and PPP

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

* Jos? Luis G?mez Dans (j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	Two quickies:
> -I have installed a couple of programs into a Debian potato system,
> foncing the deps. The programs work fine (the dependency problem was
> between libforms and xpm4g), but if I try to apt-get anything, it just
> complains about a missing dep. If I try to get apt-get to sort it out,
> it just uninstalls the forced packaages. How can I tell dpkg/apt to
> forget about that and carry on as usual (I have tried the odd 100$ bill
> inside the passport, but it's not doing much...)
> 

I'm not sure.
You could try and put the packes you forced on hold,
(echo "packagename hold" | dpkg --set-selections).
Or while I was searching for something else a while ago, I stumbled
across equivs (apt-cache show equivs) I havent tried it, and I dont even
know if its in potato (I use sid) but it could help I guess.


Sorry I cant be more help.
-- 
[ Richard Lowe - richlowe - richlowe [at] btinternet.com ]
[       http://www.richlowe.btinternet.co.uk        ]

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