RE: Can one "fake" a Debian package?

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 18-May-99 William R Pentney wrote:
> 
> I have QT 1.42 installed from the source tarball. Unfortunately, my KDE
> installation was in the form of Debian packages, and now I get
> "kde-whatever depends on qt-142" errors from dselect and apt-get. How can
> I convince my system that QT is installed? Is there a file I can edit?
> 
> - thanks, Bill 

I had this problem too and got around it by installing the qt debs AND the
source as well.

I don't know if that is a correct way to do things, but it worked for me.

--
Andrew