How to fool apt-get into believing a package is installed?

2003-08-23 Thread Neal Lippman
I am looking to install squid onto a system which runs my imap mail store, using cyrus-imap. As part of the cyrus installation, I have also installed cyrus-sasl. I compiled both myself, because at the time (over 1 year ago) that I did this, the version of cyrus-sasl and cyrus-imap running in

Re: How to fool apt-get into believing a package is installed?

2003-08-23 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030823 17:13]: Is there a reasonable way to do this? Take a look at the equivs-Package. Yours sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to fool apt-get into believing a package is installed?

2003-08-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:03:17 +0200, Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030823 17:13]: Is there a reasonable way to do this? Take a look at the equivs-Package. ...or 'alien -d a-foreign-format.pkg' and then 'dpkg -i