How to make apt-get ignore unresolved dependencies?

[Daan]

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I would like to install maxima on Debian testing ("etch") through apt-get, however, apt-get complains about libgmp3 not going to be installed. I do have libgmp3c2 installed, and I think that this will actually do just fine. I have compiled maxima form source and it ran. Now I would like to use apt-get to install it.

Is there any way to make apt-get ignore unresolved dependencies?

[Zelmo]

You can try the --ignore-missing flag with apt-get.
Or download the package and install it using dpkg with the option --ignore-depends.

I've never tried either of those, so I don't know if they apply to your situation. When I had a problem like yours, I just installed from source until the package maintainer fixed the problem (it might help if you find the maintainer and mail him about the version of libgmp3 that's being used in etch).

[justin whitaker]

Apt-get (app name) -f

or

Apt-get (app name) --nodeps

will probably work as well.

[Daan]

Thanks, I'll remeber that, --ignore-missing.

I found that I accidently had the sarge repository enabled in my sources list. Maxima is not in the etch repository, only in the sarge repository. But I installed this deb anyhow and it seems to work just fine.

But I do have Synaptic complaining about a broken dependency everytime I use it...

[sswam]

I'm sorry to say, --ignore-missing does not do that. It only works to ignore corrupted packages or packages that were declared to exist in the package list, but could not be downloaded. And there is no such option as --nodeps

I am having the same difficulty (on my Nokia n900 / Maemo phone) and I am trying to solve it using the "equivs" package, which can create little packages the Depend on or Provide other packages.

[devils casper]

Hi !

This thread is very old and a lot of things have been changed since then. If you have any question, I would suggest you to start new thread.