Re: Dealing with broken dependency in dselect
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 03:48:45PM -0500, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> > How can I get dselect to install packages that depend on
> > no-longer-available packages, and, once installed, how do I keep dselect
> > from uninstalling them?
You can put the package on hold with '=' in dselect to keep it from
being uninstalled. However, Colin's advice is better.
> > I'm trying lilypond, but it still depends on python-base (no longer
> > avaible).
>
> Wait for lilypond to be fixed for the new Python policy, or build it
> yourself from source and change the Depends: field in debian/control.
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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