Re: install ant package

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:02:44AM +0100, Gregor Anders wrote:
> Titus Barik schrieb:
> >I'm running Debian testing. I'd like to install the ant package without
> >installing Samble VM, as I am already using the Sun JDK 1.4 compiler.
> >How can I accomplish this?
> 
> what about using dpkg --force-depends, i think this one should help.
> see dpkg --force-help for more

Using --force-anything is almost invariably a bad idea; please don't
recommend it. The one exception is --force-overwrite, and even then you
should know what you're doing.

If nothing else, apt-get will refuse to run with unsatisfied
dependencies.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]