Re: dselect

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:00:04PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I thought if you have -dev package, you do not need -dev less package.

Nope. The -dev packages have things like header files and static
libraries, but you'll still want the shared libraries for the runtime.

> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:09:04AM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
> > Hi, I'm trying to install gdk-imlib-dev package and I'm getting an error
> > resulting from dependancies between libungif3g and libungif3g-dev. How
> > can I just force the installation without worrying about the
> > dependancies from within dselect? I tried Q, but then it wouldn't
> > install them. Thanks. -Jeff

But, what is the dependency problem?  Maybe something an "apt-get
update" will resolve?

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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>