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Re: Outside subsystem installed, packages unaware, dselect trying to help...



At 11:33 PM 05/19/2000 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote:
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> Any way to convince apt to just get the add-on tool?
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> Greg
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YOW! I bet you rolled your own apache rather than installing one from a
deb package and this is apt's way of telling you that it wants something
that provides an httpd: by trying to install all of 'em. If this is the
case, have a look at the equivs package. It allows you to install a fake
package which can meet other packages' dependencies.

BTW, I installed dhelp from potato, and it also provides an info browser
function. It still needs an httpd, though.
Dave,
Yes, correct. Thanks a lot, will try it.

I did this for several packages, (JDK, KSDK, Jserv, ..), so knowing about equiv is helpful!

Is it best that Debian packages are parallel to all of these various outside universes? Or is there a way that a Debian package can just grab the lastest from SUn, and then note that you now have it?

Greg



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