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Re: Dependency Injection



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On 09/22/06 12:02, Lars Roland wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I need to get mysql 4 running on a debian etch box, mysql 4.1 and 5
> will not do. If I try to grab mysql 4 from sarge I run into the
> problem that mysql-client depends on libreadline4 and I already have
> readline-common installed which blocks libreeadline4. Uninstalling
> readline-common is not and options since core software depends on it,
> so what I am looking for is a way to tell apt that readline-common
> provides libreadline4 so mysql-client can be installed.
> 
> So basically is there a way to tell apt that a needed package is
> already installed even though one already on the system blocks this
> package ?

You could grab the deb-src and build from that...

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