Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?

Joshua Judson Rosen rozzin at geekspace.com
Sat Feb 12 23:30:30 EST 2011


Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hey list,
> 
>   I've recently reinstalled Debian 5.0 "lenny" on my PC (after a
> unfortunate accident involving a package manager, a liquid lunch, and
> a pair of rubber bands).  However, in the meantime, Debian has
> released "squeeze" as "stable".  In the progress of updating for that,
> debian-multimedia.org broke their "oldstable" archive (corresponding
> to lenny right now) and have taken it offline, so only their stable
> archive (corresponding to squeeze) is available.  d-m.org was where I
> was getting my Adobe Flash package from.
[...]
>   Anyone got a clue they can spare?

What's wrong with the `flashplugin-nonfree' package that Debian has
in lenny-backports?

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