On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 12:29 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Dom writes: > > I'm not sure if there is anything that can directly bypass > > dependencies. > > "dpkg --force-depends <package>" will. Don't use it. AFAIK this does not fulfil the dependency, it will cause an inconsistent system, since it doesn't fake a fulfilled dependency, but just allows to install a package without a dependency.