Hey list, Anyone know of a way to have apt-get (Debian) ignore dependencies and download the frelling package anyway?
I've recently reinstalled Debian 5.0 "lenny" on my PC (after a unfortunate accident involving a package manager, a liquid lunch, and a pair of rubber bands). However, in the meantime, Debian has released "squeeze" as "stable". In the progress of updating for that, debian-multimedia.org broke their "oldstable" archive (corresponding to lenny right now) and have taken it offline, so only their stable archive (corresponding to squeeze) is available. d-m.org was where I was getting my Adobe Flash package from. They conveniently kept a current release packaged in a "real" Debian package, not the download-an-executable-installer-for-you package one gets elsewhere. Unfortunately, their package based on squeeze thinks it depends on newer libraries than those which ship with lenny. However, I'm almost positive that's wrong -- Flash is statically linked. It sure as hell ain't built against a particular version of Debian. I'm willing to bet those dependencies are just in the package control file because those were the libraries the auto-dependency-generator thing found when the package was built. One could argue that's a bug in the package, and you'd be right, but one could argue Flash is inherently broken, and you'd also be right. This is the reality I have to deal with, and I can't seem to clue apt-get in to it. (I don't want to upgrade to squeeze because (1) it just came out, and that's always a bad idea with *ANYTHING*, and (2) squeeze has moved to one of those overly-complicated dynamic init systems, which I object to for religious reasons.) Google is full of situations that don't apply. Anyone got a clue they can spare? -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/