On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 02:21:33PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:49:36 -0400 (EDT), François Patte wrote: [...] > > > 3- Is it possible to install a package without its dependencies with > > apt-get? I wanted to install auctex but apt-get wants to install a lot > > of TeX packages which I don't want. > > > > I know, auctex is made for TeX, but I install texlive directly from CTAN > > and don't want to have 2 TeX installations. > > Maybe, but in general, you shouldn't. There are three levels of "dependency". > A package can DEPEND on another package, RECOMMEND another package, or > SUGGEST another package. By default, aptitude, and I think apt-get as well, > installs all packages that are dependencies or recommendations. You can > suppress the installation of recommended packages with > > aptitude -R install <package_name> > > or > > apt-get --no-install-recommends install <package_name> > > This may help. But if the extra packages are truly dependencies of the > package you want to install, it probably won't work without the dependent > packages, even if you can get it installed.
If it's possible for the package to work without its dependencies
(because the package uses/expect paths that match your manually
installed stuff) you can force install via dpkg
dpkg --force-depends package.deb
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