Re: Dealing with "forcibly" installed packages
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:06:27 +0200
"Dan H." <dunno@stoptrick.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the most recent etch upgrade broke the Opera web browser (I think
> because of new X libs). Googled for a fix and found one,
> downloaded the newest debs (v9.20) from opera.org.
>
> Unfortunately at first the .deb wouldn't install due to an
> unsatisfied dependency on libqt3c102-mt, which doesn't seem to be
> in etch. I thought, fuck it, Opera didn't need that package
> yesterday so it won't need it today and forced the installation of
> opera using dpkg's -f option. All went fine and Opera works.
>
> But.
>
> Then I wanted to install stuff using aptitude, and upon hitting
> 'g', aptitude dutifully informed me that opera was broken and
> insisted on its removal. Is there a possibility to flag a package
> to apt as "it works, so leave it alone and stop bitching"?
>
> --D.
>
>
aptitude hold <pkgname>
--
Raquel
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