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Nemikolh
Nemikolh

Reputation: 700

Ubuntu provide a manual installation of a package as alternative for debian archives

Is it possible to point a dependency of a deb file to a local installation?

In the full scenario both node and npm have been installed with nvm but when trying to install the debian package, it complains about unmet dependencies:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 <package-name>: Depends: npm but it is not installed

More generally I wonder how feasible this is because if I understand correctly a package dependency is expected to be available in a location available to all users.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 29

Answers (1)

Karsten Koop
Karsten Koop

Reputation: 2524

In a situation where a package has an unmet dependency, but you have installed this dependency by hand (or you know that the package does not really need the dependency), you can use equivs to create a dummy package which satisfies the dependency.

Note that this is more like a hack, so only use it if you know what you are doing and there is no better solution, like using a PPA for the most recent version of the dependency.

If you are using make install to install your binaries, you might also consider using checkinstall to create a package which keeps track of the manual install.

Upvotes: 1

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