Hey, thanks a bunch, Dwayne.
equivs was exactly the sort of solution I hoped
existed. I knew Debian had a rational fix
for this but had never used equivs before.
First I had to uninstall lgtoclnt so that apt-get
would let me do things.
Then I installed equivs: apt-get install equivs
Then I bu
The --patch option for alien might also help you build a lgtoclnt package
that doesn't include the X clients.
Alternatively, the 'equivs' package might help. It will let you build and
install a fake package that Provides: xlibs. However, keep in mind that if
you *do* decide to install X late
Howdy,
I have a package I've installed by alien for
legato networker backup client. It comes
with X versions of the client, which I
don't need. Therefore I want the install to
ignore the xlibs and other dependancies.
# dpkg --force-depends -i lgtoclnt_6.1-2_i386.deb
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