Re: knoppix-med: Python2.2 dep problem

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Jubal wrote:

> Yes wxgtk is causing the problems.. I'm having to do a 'dpkg -i
> --force-depends=python libwxgtk2.3-pythonxxx.deb' and then a 'dpkg -i
> gnumed-client-snapshotxxx.deb' to get around the problem.. I was just
> wondering if there was a better way of doing this, since after this the
> package management keeps thinking that there are broken dependencies?
>
> Sebastian, what is your solution to this?
This is bad

     dpkg -i --force-depends=python libwxgtk2.3-pythonxxx.deb

I suggest to not force-depends any stuff at all.  The right way to go
would be to adjust /etc/apt/sources.list to include testing _and_
unstable and tagging testing to higher priority with the pinning
feature (/etc/apt/preferences).  Feel free to ask if you have no idea
how to do that.  (It is describet in the manpages and the list archive
if debian-devel, but I could do a short summary here.)

Than you can do

    apt-get -t unstable install libwxgtk2.3-python

or

    apt-get install python/unstable libwxgtk2.3-python/unstable ...

which enables a clean install of packages from unstable if necessary
but keeps all other packages from testing.

Kind regards

        Andreas.