libraries cyclic dependency

[Onno Benschop]

On 15/05/08 07:06, Pedro Brito Cruz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm working on dapper distro and need to install libqt3-mt-dev which
> depends on a whole big list of other libraries.
>
> when trying to install some of these libraries I got to a cyclic
> dependency which i don't know how to deal with.
>
> x11proto-xext-dev
>
> depends on
>
> libxi-dev
>
> which depends on
>
> libxext-dev
>
> which depends on 
>
> x11proto-xext-dev (here starts the cycle)
>
>
> Therefore i should ask for your expertise in solving this issue.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Pedro

I may be way off the mark, but if I recall correctly, if you install
them all on the same command-line all will be well, like this:

    * apt-get install x11proto-xext-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev

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