Re: Evolution uninstallable in unstable (workaround?) [SOLVED]

[Alex Polite <m2@plusseven.com>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote:
> 
> I installed the other dependencies. Then I downloaded the
> evolution*.deb and did 
> 
> dpkg --force-depends -i evolution*.deb
> 
> Took me an hour but evolution seems to be working nicely.

And then apt-get started bitching about missing dependencies when I
wanted to install something new.

The correct way to solve this turned out to be with equivs, a set of
to tools that will let you build a dummy package which you can then
install to make the package system believe that all deps are
satisfied.


alex