Re: SOLUTION: How do I tell Aptitude to Ignore a Broken Package?
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 22:14 -0700, Jeff Stevens wrote:
> I've installed anjuta from unstable on my testing box using 'dpkg
> --ignore-depends anjuta'. Of course, 'aptitude upgrade' throws a
> dependency error so I'm unable to upgrade. Is there an elegant way to
> tell aptitude to ignore the broken dependency? I suppose I could
> edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and remove the dependency, but that seems like
> a super-kludge.
Well, it appears it isn't possible to configure aptitude to ignore
dependency errors. I ended up editing /var/lib/dpkg/status, adjusting
the 'Depends' line to keep aptitude quiet. In the future, I can add the
dependencies back to the 'Depends' line should I desire.
-Jeff
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