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Tell aptitude to ignore broken package

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Mar 15, 202626229 views
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Problem

I installed a Amsynth from Lucid in Karmic using: The reason for installing the Lucid version is because Karmic version is 3 years old and crashes on my machine. The Lucid Amsynth package depends on newer versions of libatk1 and libjack0 than Karmic has, but I thought I would take a risk, and turns…

Error Output

dpkg --force-depends-version -i amsynth_1.2.2-1_i386.deb

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Fix for: Tell aptitude to ignore broken package

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There's a hacked solution at the Ubuntuforums. ~quack's solution is better, but more work. I couldn't find anything on google about this, save compiling your own 'dummy package' (impossible without uninstalling the broken package(s). unless you are …

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