On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 12:22:18AM +0200, Lars Roland wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the replies
>
> I will be using the equivs solution since mysql 4 is going to have a
> short life on this box before getting upgraded to 5.x (about a month)
> . But the other solution is the best and worth considering
On 9/22/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1. You can use the equivs package to "fool" dpkg into thinking that a
package is there when it is not. This is commonly used, for example, by
people who want to install things like apache from upstream source, but
then also install Debian
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:02:40PM +0200, Lars Roland wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I need to get mysql 4 running on a debian etch box, mysql 4.1 and 5
> will not do. If I try to grab mysql 4 from sarge I run into the
> problem that mysql-client depends on libreadline4 and I already have
> readline-common i
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On 09/22/06 12:02, Lars Roland wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I need to get mysql 4 running on a debian etch box, mysql 4.1 and 5
> will not do. If I try to grab mysql 4 from sarge I run into the
> problem that mysql-client depends on libreadline4 and I already
Hi!
* Lars Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060922 19:02]:
> So basically is there a way to tell apt that a needed package is
> already installed even though one already on the system blocks this
> package ?
Yes, a quick and dirty way would be to install the package with
dpkg and "--force-depends".
Hi all
I need to get mysql 4 running on a debian etch box, mysql 4.1 and 5
will not do. If I try to grab mysql 4 from sarge I run into the
problem that mysql-client depends on libreadline4 and I already have
readline-common installed which blocks libreeadline4. Uninstalling
readline-common is not
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