distro installs

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 22:14 -0800, Len Ovens wrote:
> Can a dummy package be made that makes it look like they are
> installed? There must be a proper way of doing this.

# equivs-control <package name>
# gedit <package name>
# equivs-build <package name>
# dpkg -i <package name...deb>

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html

- Ralf