Dear all - I would like to install mgetty-fax on my Potato server. This does not run X, and it never will, so I would rather save space and cpu-cycles and not install any x related things. However, is I do:
apt-get install mgetty-fax -s I get a horrible bunch of x stuff rated as dependencies ready to get installed. This seems to be due (traced back with apt-cache showpkg) to a dependency on mgetty-viewfax which depends on xlib6g in order so provide some fax-viewer for x. That I do not need. Now I have seen an option for dpkg; --ignore-depands that seems to allow for what I need. Question is this: Am I right in assuming that: dpkg -i --ignore-depends=mgetty-viewfax mgetty-fax will install both mgetty-fax and mgetty-viewfax but ignore the (x) dependencies introduced by mgetty-viewfax? And also: dpkg -i --ignore-depends=mgetty-fax mgetty-fax will install only mgetty-fax and ignore all dependencies? Further, will that dependency check be turned off in all future upgrades and dist-upgrades, or do I have to maintain this forever? Thanks a lot for an thoughts! -- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
