On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > I need to install the xproc package for xcontrib, but it requires > > elf-x11r6lib which is not available.. Where can I find this package or > > another verion of xproc which doesn't require elf-x11r6lib? > > The xproc package, as well as several other packages, has an obsolete > dependancy on the virtual package elf-x11r6lib. This virtual package used > to be provided by xlib6, but it was removed almost a year after it had > been announced as obsolete. Installing the package with the > --force-depends option to dpkg will allow you to install it anyway.
If I run force-depends, won't dselect decide that the elf-x11r6lib package no longer exists, therefore uninstalling xproc and xcontrib? Dselect is too much of a helpful tool to give up. -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
