[Gllug] Stop apt-get fretting about packages installed by force

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Tue Apr 18 16:12:57 UTC 2006


Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
>> Not really. Are you mixing distributions? 
> 
> Yes, for this particular package.

Well, don't.  If it's not available in Debian directly then either 
compile from source or, if it's in unstable etc, backport it.

Installing .debs from other distros _will_ screw up your system.
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