[Gambas-user] 2 questions about making an Installation Packet

[T Lee Davidson]

On 2/14/20 11:06 AM, Christof Thalhofer wrote:
> I package a couple of programs for Debian/Ubuntu machines, some of them
> as components in the normal way to package things with the Gambas IDE.
> 
> If I would like to try out a new Gambas development version, maybe to
> test, if it breaks any of my programs or something else, I cannot remove
> the distributions Gambas whithout removing these programs and I cannot
> install one of these without installing Gambas from the distribution.

It sounds as though it might be useful to be able to have packaged and self-compiled versions of Gambas coexist on the same 
machine. As far as I know, that's not possible at present.

I don't know about Aptitude, but RPM has a '--nodeps' option (don't verify package dependencies).


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Lee