On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:13:23AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > Is there a way to manually edit the database that says which packages > are installed? I set up a small system, using potato, and am adding > several packages from source. I added stuff like glib-1.2.8, tcl-8.32, > tk8.3.2, etc. How can I tell apt that these packages are installed? > Or at least make it think the potato version is installed. You may want to take a close(r) look at apt-cache. I have no idea if I'm correct, or if so, how to use it in this method, but it seems like the right tool for the job...
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