Re: "Fixing" dependency problems with some sort of alias?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:26:08AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> With gaim being broken indefinitely, I thought I'd give ymessenger a try.
> I'm running unstable so there's a dependency issue with the install
> (libssl0.9.6 is required but I have libssl0.9.7). I used --ignore-depends
> on the dpkg install command to get ymessenger installed and it works fine.
> 
> But apt-get notices the problem and wants to fix it. Is there anyway that
> I can tell apt-get to just ignore the problem, just alias libssl0.9.7
> as libssl0.9.6 or something like that?

Uh - I'm amazed ymessenger even works, since libssl0.9.6 and libssl0.9.7
provide libraries with different sonames. Perhaps some SSL-specific bit
of it will fail.

You could install libssl0.9.6, which is still available in unstable and
can be installed in parallel with libssl0.9.7.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]