Re: Dealing with broken dependency in dselect

["Thomas J. Hamman" <hammant@panther.adelphi.edu>]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:39:48PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> 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.

Even putting it on hold didn't work.  I'll try Colin's suggestion
though.

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Thomas J. Hamman
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