Re: Lying to dpkg?
"Phoenix Amon" <phoenix@directiondesigns.com> writes:
> Is there anyway I can lie to dpkg to convince it
> that I really do have these packages installed? Or would that not
> work anyway because programs would look for it in the wrong
> location? (/usr/bin rather than usr/local/bin or whatever)
Have a look at the equivs package. The other programs should find
your programs as long as you have them in the $PATH. In the worse case
you might have to provide symlinks to the right place (but if $PATH
is correctly set that won't be necessary).
Download the Contents-i385.gz file for a list of all files and which
package they belong to (so you know where to point your symlinks).
("man ln" for symlinks.)
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