Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have QT 1.42 installed from the source tarball. Unfortunately, my KDE > > installation was in the form of Debian packages, and now I get > > "kde-whatever depends on qt-142" errors from dselect and apt-get. How can > > I convince my system that QT is installed? Is there a file I can edit? > > > > - thanks, Bill > > I had this problem too and got around it by installing the qt debs AND the > source as well. > > I don't know if that is a correct way to do things, but it worked for me.
I just created a local package that provides (in the dpkg sense) whatever packages I do not want to install from deb files, for whatever reason. I created a directory tree and file: local/DEBIAN/control where control is: Package: local Version: 1.00 Architecture: all Essential: no Provides: tex, latex, texinfo, dvips, dvipsk, xdvi, metafont Maintainer: "Jeff Lessem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Provides for packages that I prefer to maintain myself This is just my example. You probably want to look through /var/lib/dpkg/available to see what packages qt Provides:. Then from ../local, run "dpkg-deb -b local" and local.deb will be created. Then use "dpkg -i local.deb" to install your packages. It contains no files, it simply tells dpkg that whatever packages are listed on Provides: are installed. -- Jeff Lessem.
