Re: Forcing installation over unmet dependencies

[Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp>]

* Morten Eriksen <mortene@sim.no> [030702 10:59]:
<snip>
> How can I force apt-get to ignore the unmet dependency, or otherwise
> get the libqt3-dev package installed?
> 
> Is there a general mechanism for telling the package manipulation
> system "don't bother with this package, I've already got what it
> provides covered from another source"?

There are a couple of ways. I think all of them are explained in the
section 2.2 of the Debian Reference by Osamo Aoki[1]. This is an
excellent document and should be your first port of call for most
Debian related questions.

Cheers,

Nick.

1.http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals
or
apt-get install debian-refernce

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