Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:55:32 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > >> Keeping it short, i want to install zabbix-frontend-php, which depends >> on apache; or httpd. I installed nginx from source (and used >> checkinstall a while back i think so) it's listed in the installed >> packages but it didn't provide httpd. I can't install httpd because it's >> a virtual package. >> >> So, how can i manually mark httpd as installed? > >Mmm... if you know what you are doing and you know that zabbix will work, >why not installing the package by instructing apt-get/aptitude to do not >care about dependecies just in this case? > >There has to be a switch for that or maybe a better way to achieve it >without needing to lie the whole apt database about apache real status :-?
You might want to have a look at equivs, which basically creates dummy packages to fulfil dependencies. See http://eric.lubow.org/2010/system-administration/creating-dummy-packages-on-debian/ or the included documentation for instructions. Best regards, Claudius -- He who hesitates is sometimes saved. Please use GPG: ECB0C2C7 4A4C4046 446ADF86 C08112E5 D72CDBA4 http://chubig.net/ http://nightfall.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110717134856.2727b...@ares.home.chubig.net
