Ignoring broken packages

[Yannick Le Saint (kyncani)]

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 19:20 +1200, Christoph Georgi wrote:
> how can I ignore a broken package in Synaptic? The program is working 
> fine, as it requires Java which I installed "from source", but is marked 
> as broken due to the missing Java packages in Synaptic.

  You could tell dpkg about your local java version by creating a fake
package.

  Look at the package equivs, which can help you do that.

-- 
Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
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