Re: configure apt-get to ignore packages

[Marcelo Medici <gaucho@ericps.crc.uiuc.edu>]

Well I installed squirrelmail via command line rpm, however I compile
Apache with modssl and php by hand, and I would rather not use the rpm
packages for these since I also compile in FrontPage Extensions. I did
find that in apt.conf, rather than adding a regex such as "^squirrelmail",
by just adding the package name "squirrelmail" to the Apt::Ignore
variable, it appears that apt is back on track without complaining about
the dependencies. Thank you for the suggestion of the rpm database
rebuild. I will read the man page to become more aquainted with what will
be done.

Thank you.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:42:13PM -0500, Marcelo Medici wrote:
> > I recently installed an RPM manually that required dependencies that are
> > not installed on the machine via RPM. As a result apt-get complains.
>
> It won't just complain...  It can't function.
>
> Your choices are either a) don't do that or b) don't let rpm know
> about any of the packages.  If you do "rpm -e --justdb" on that
> package, it will remove it from the rpm database, but it won't touch
> it on the system.
>
> Of course, you're better off fixing the dependencies by installing
> everything from rpms.
>
> Steve
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