Hi folks,

Keeping it short, i want to install zabbix-frontend-php, which depends
on apache; or httpd. I installed nginx from source (and used
checkinstall a while back i think so) it's listed in the installed
packages but it didn't provide httpd. I can't install httpd because
it's a virtual package.

So, how can i manually mark httpd as installed?

TIA,
Nuno

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On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:55:32 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:

> Keeping it short, i want to install zabbix-frontend-php, which depends
> on apache; or httpd. I installed nginx from source (and used
> checkinstall a while back i think so) it's listed in the installed
> packages but it didn't provide httpd. I can't install httpd because it's
> a virtual package.
>
> So, how can i manually mark httpd as installed?

Mmm... if you know what you are doing and you know that zabbix will work,
why not installing the package by instructing apt-get/aptitude to do not
care about dependecies just in this case?

There has to be a switch for that or maybe a better way to achieve it
without needing to lie the whole apt database about apache real status :-?

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Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:55:32 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
>
>> Keeping it short, i want to install zabbix-frontend-php, which depends
>> on apache; or httpd. I installed nginx from source (and used
>> checkinstall a while back i think so) it's listed in the installed
>> packages but it didn't provide httpd. I can't install httpd because it's
>> a virtual package.
>>
>> So, how can i manually mark httpd as installed?
>
>Mmm... if you know what you are doing and you know that zabbix will work,
>why not installing the package by instructing apt-get/aptitude to do not
>care about dependecies just in this case?
>
>There has to be a switch for that or maybe a better way to achieve it
>without needing to lie the whole apt database about apache real status :-?

You might want to have a look at equivs, which basically creates
dummy packages to fulfil dependencies.

See http://eric.lubow.org/2010/system-administration/creating-dummy-packages-on-debian/
or the included documentation for instructions.

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Hi

>>There has to be a switch for that or maybe a better way to achieve it
>>without needing to lie the whole apt database about apache real status :-?

That was my first guess, but there was nothing (i could find) in the
manpage. Besides, the whole point of a package manager is to *prevent*
you from not installing packages you should in the first place

The think is when i used checkinstall i forgot to set "Provides:
httpd". Thankfully, zabbix depends on apache or httpd.

> You might want to have a look at equivs, which basically creates
> dummy packages to fulfil dependencies.

Had some issues with the syntax at first but worked like a charm. Thanks

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