On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Markus Lechner wrote: > Thanks, this information helps a lot. > > > Note that if you build the source yourself, dpkg won't > > know that you've installed tcl and will give you lots of dependency > > errors. This is poor. > > > > I wondered if there is a way to 'mimic' install/remove with dpkg? > > > Thanks, > > Mac > >
If you go to /var/lib/dpkg, you will find a file called status. This appears to be how dselect keeps track of what's installed/configured/etc. The format is pretty self explanitory, so you should be able to hack the status line of the package in question, "fooling" dselect into thinking it installed the package. Rich -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
