> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:42:01AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: >> Colin Watson wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:14:45AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: >> >> apt-get install webalizer wants to install X libs. I don't want X >> >> libs. How can I break this dependency so I can install webalizer >> >> without X? >> > >> > Recompile webalizer from the Debian source package, altering it so that >> > it doesn't build the X bits. >> > >> > xlibs isn't *that* large a package, though. >> >> I baulk at the idea of installing 7.5MB of X libraries just for The >> Webalizer. > > Obviously not just for webalizer, since I believe I've seen you asking > about other packages that indirectly depend on xlibs.
Yeah, apt-get install slapd want's X (not just the libs -- the whole enchalada). That's obviously just a depenancy error :( > >> It's not right! The real question is; why does it need X libraries? > > Probably for the GD graphics library's XPM output. In fact - how about > 'apt-get install webalizer libgd2-noxpm'? No difference. > > I suggest getting used to using 'apt-cache show <package>' and reading > Depends: lines to work out where dependencies come from. Good package > management frontends (i.e. not apt-get) should be able to tell you, too; > even the venerable dselect can do this, so I'd imagine aptitude can as > well. I know about apt-cache show. But I'll look into dselect. I think aptitude is a GUI so I don't think that applies to me. Thanks, Mike -- A program should be written to model the concepts of the task it performs rather than the physical world or a process because this maximizes the potential for it to be applied to tasks that are conceptually similar and, more important, to tasks that have not yet been conceived. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
