how to make apt-get ignore broken packages
what should not be mentioned:
*disabling "Automatically fix broken packages before installing or removing" in aptitude -- because it does not work *editing /var/lib/dkpg/status -- not related to apt-get really * -m or -f options of apt-get -- because they do not help me in any way * downloading the package manually and using dpkg --force-depends-version -i <package> -- again, not apt-get I need the --just shut the fuck up and dl&install the darn package option immediately. |
What do you want to install?
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It would help if you actually tell us why
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Reading package lists... Done |
Please post your /etc/apt/sources.list.
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deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze non-free contrib main deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt squeeze main |
I am not sure, but I think that I read somewhere that the US-mirrors have problems in the last time. Change it to a different mirror, update the database and try it again.
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My questions stands: how do I make apt-get skip checking for broken packages and just dl&install what I want? |
Apt-get has no option to ignore broken packages. And it seems to me that either your package database or your mirror is not containing all the packages, since it is obvious that apt-get can't find packages that should be available even if you had only enabled the main repositories. Therefore the question for your sources.list and the recommendation to change the mirror.
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There is nothing that pisses me off more than seeing "Access denied", "You can't do that" and other shit like that on my own system. What I want to do, I do. And if I want to maintain a broken system then that is exactly what I'm going to do. |
Then go for a LFS install, you will have the absolute power to break your system. Or use Slackware, dependency management on that system has to be done by the user. It is not the fault of the distro or the package-manager. You have chosen a distro that has, amongst others, stability as main goal. If you want to willfully break your system I would consider that a rather poor choice.
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those things require way too much work, I'm probably just gonna go with rewriting the necessary components of a major distro
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