On Monday, 19. Nov. 2001 at 12:35:04, Dave Restall - System Administrator wrote > What I would like to do is to be able to let dselect / dpkg THINK that > what is installed is the version that it expects, quite possibly by > editing /var/lib/dpkg/status if necessary. This is a requirement simply > because with a lot of stuff, dselect/dpkg _THINKS_ the installation is > broken when in reality it is not, it just doesn't have the bits that > dpkg/dselect thinks it should have. Hello Dave, look for the package equivs. $apt-cache show equivs Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian packages, which only contain dependency information. . This way, you can make the Debian package management system believe that equivalents to packages on which other packages do depend on are actually installed. ..... Hth Michael -- The README file said "Requires Windows 95, NT 4.0, or better." So... I installed it on Linux!
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