[vox-tech] Getting apt-get to not install certain packages

[Brian Lavender]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:32:19AM -0800, Henry House wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 March 2010, Richard Harke wrote:
> > Of course, I still want to install everyhing I want. I want ot install a
> > package but apt-get
> > wants to install mesa as well. I don't want or need mesa and in fact I
> > imagine it will compromise
> > my Nvidia installation.
> 
> I suggest you have a look at the equivs package. It is designed to
> create a fake package to satistify a dependency in situations such as
> yours.

I second Henry's recommendation. You stand to fubar your system if you
remove those packages. 

If you have nvidia-glx-new installed, I believe it will handle all the
dependencies.

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