On 18-May-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
It is my belief that I am better off installing Qt and KDE from source, because some newer apps won't run from the deb installations. Still, if I try to install a deb package for Debian, the package usually complains that it does not find debian packages for KDE installed and it quits. I looked into the equivs package, but from what I read, it is not a good solution and can break a system. -- Andrew
