dpkg trick for wxglade

[Scott J. Henson]

Matt Patterson wrote:

> I am trying to install the latest version of wxglade. Obviously my 
> hoary system does not contain python2.3, thus installing the 
> dependancy python2.3-pythoncard will not work. If I force the install 
> wxglade works fine because I have the newer python2.4 version 
> installed (I assume). The only problem with that is if I try to 
> install anything after that point using apt I get stupid errors about 
> how it cannot continue because it cannot install python2.3-pythoncard. 
> Basically this requires me to uninstall and reinstall wxglade every 
> time I use apt to install something.
>
> Is there a way to force the package to install and have its dependancy 
> checks ignored in the future? Or, is there a better way to install 
> wxglade than the .deb file provided on the website?

Two ways.  One, recompile wxglade with a dep on the 2.4 package.  Not 
recommended because as soon as Ubuntu updates it your changes are lost.  
The recommended way is to use equivs to make a fake package.  Then you 
work with the maintainer of wxglade to get it compiled against python2.4 
by default.