Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?

Michael ODonnell michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Sat Feb 12 20:07:07 EST 2011



> I'm willing to bet those dependencies are just in the
> package control file because those were the libraries the
> auto-dependency-generator thing found when the package was built.

Probably, but I think it's likely you'll have to invoke dpkg directly
so as to be able to beg it to ignore those dependencies, and then
only after first hauling the .deb files in question onboard if they
aren't already under /var/cache/apt/...



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