>> > 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. > > dselect will bring up a conflict resolution screen whenever you exit from > it complaining about the unresolved dependancy. It should however, leave > them selected. You can exit that screen by using 'Q' to tell it to > override. > I think you have to hit "R" first, because dselect will deselect all packages depending on the not existing package.
You could also fetch Paul Seelig's equivs package from http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pseelig/debian.html This is a dummy package. You can place elf-x11r6lib into "provides:" and rebuild it (instructions how to do this should be inside the package by now). Then you install it using --force-conflicts. This way you will have a package which provides elf-x11r6lib and dselect/dpkg won't complain any more. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
