On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:28:00PM -0700, Piero wrote: > I had to install X 4.3 because former version didn't support my video > card. I istalled it from a tarball downloaded from the Xfre86 site. Is > it possible to "tell" the packages databae managed by dpkg or apt-get > that this operation has been done?
You can build an "equivs" package, which is basically a completely empty .deb file that exists only to provide an entry in dpkg's database. "apt-get install equivs" and read the documentation. One thing to keep in mind with a big package like X is that there are many binary packages installed from a single source package. You undoubtedly overwrote file from xserver-xfree86, xserver-common, xfonts-base, and more. In order to avoid potential trouble, you should build equivs packages to replace all of those. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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