I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long
story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work)
But now apt won't upgrade, it complains about skype's missing libs.
Can i remove skype from apt's db without removing it?
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04-07-2008, 04:39 AM
NN_il_Confusionario
Remove package from apt's db
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:47:44AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote:
> I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long
> story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work)
I would NOT remove skype from the dpkg database /var/lib/dpkg/status
I would use equivs (or manual editing of /var/lib/dpkg/status
/var/lib/dpkg/info/$PAKAGENAME.list , but you must _exactly_ know what
you are doing) to say that dependencies are installed.
In desperate case where dependencies are wrongly declared (like
installing opera on sarge) a manual editing of /var/lib/dpkg/status to
correctly declare the dependencies makes sense.
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04-07-2008, 06:46 AM
Rich Healey
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NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:47:44AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote:
>> I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long
>> story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work)
>
> I would NOT remove skype from the dpkg database /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> I would use equivs (or manual editing of /var/lib/dpkg/status
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/$PAKAGENAME.list , but you must _exactly_ know what
> you are doing) to say that dependencies are installed.
>
> In desperate case where dependencies are wrongly declared (like
> installing opera on sarge) a manual editing of /var/lib/dpkg/status to
> correctly declare the dependencies makes sense.
>
I _DO_ know what i'm doing (not arrogance or anger).
I'm used to building systems from scratch, I have _A_ set of qt libs,
and skype works fine, it's just not the set that apt feels i should have.
Kind Regards
Rich Healey
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04-07-2008, 08:24 AM
NN_il_Confusionario
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On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:46:45PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote:
> I _DO_ know what i'm doing (not arrogance or anger).
>
> I'm used to building systems from scratch,
sorry, I was referring to a good knowledge of dpkg files, not to a good
knowledge about complilation of packages. I any case my previous answer
(complemented by dpkg documentation) contains all you need to know for
your aims.
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