Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Sun Feb 13 09:50:04 EST 2011


On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Alan Johnson <alan at datdec.com> wrote:
> > If you don't want to fish through the repos, you will likely find it in
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/
>
>  Alas, no.  apt-get won't even download the package because it thinks
> there are unsolved dependencies.
>
>
It's nice/sad to see Debian getting the symptoms of RPM hell that people
always bring up.

I'm still learning the ins/outs of apt vs yum as I transistion at home from
Fedora to ubuntu and debian.
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