Stupid apt tricks

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Stupid apt tricks

Postby Void Main » Tue Jun 10, 2003 2:18 am

I added a new section to the apt for Red Hat instructions:

Stupid apt tricks: You can usually resolve dependencies for RPMs that are not even in the apt-repository. Say you have an RPM that you want to install that isn't in the apt repository, you go to install it but it complains that you do not have required libraries installed and you have no idea where to get those libraries or what RPMs they might be part of. Dependency hell again right? Nope, you can just force install the RPM and then use apt to find and install the missing dependencies.

For example, installing "Firewall Builder"
# rpm -Uvh fwbuilder*rpm libfwbuilder*rpm --nodeps
# apt-get -f install
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Postby Calum » Wed Jun 11, 2003 7:05 am

somehow that seems like abusing the package manager. i hope it doesn't mind!
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