I have installed libxml2-2.6.17-2 which isn't in the offciail debian repository, and I have it successfully installed. Now I need libglademm-2.4-dev installed which depends on libxml2-dev-2.6.17-2 but I get this:
libxml2-dev: Depends: libxml2 (= 2.6.16-7) but 2.6.17-2 is to be installed This is because it tries to install libxml2-dev version 2.6.16-7 from the official repository. So downloaded a libxml2-dev as a rpm package, transform it in a deb package with alien and used dpkg-scanpackages then apt-get update. The problem is that apt sees the package obtained from the rpm file as libxml2-devel and not libxml2-dev and that causes apt to try to install libxml2-dev from the official repository. So how can I make apt to recognize the package from the rpm file as libxml2-dev not libxml2-devel.
