RE: Dependancy problem

["Kevin Ross" <kross@statuspro.tv>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wulfy [mailto:wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:39 PM
> To: Debian User
> Subject: Dependancy problem
> 
> I want to install jEdit 4.3pre9.  I downloaded the deb from 
> the download 
> link given on the jedit.org site.  When I try to dpkg -i 
> jedit..., I get 
> an error because it's dependant on sun-java5 and I have sun-java6 
> installed.  How can I get it to accept sun-java5 *or later*?
> 
> I run Sarge, though the Java package is from unstable.

Check out the "equivs" package.

-- Kevin