Re: How to tell dpkg a package is installed though it isn't?

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Subject: Re: How to tell dpkg a package is installed though it isn't?
From: Martin.Bialasinski@uni-koeln.de
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 02:25:43 +0200 (CEST)
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Reply-to: Martin.Bialasinski@uni-koeln.de
In-reply-to: <[🔎] vafbu56up3j.fsf@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de>

On 17 Jun, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> I compiled Emacs myself and put it in /usr/local.  How do I tell dpkg
> that it's OK to install packages that depend on Emacs though it's not
> a Debian package install?
> 
Try the equivs Package from Paul Seelig's "unofficial debian packages"
site.
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pseelig/debian.html

It did a fine job, when I replaced apache with roxen.

Ciao,
	Martin



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