I installed Opera 12.16 from a .deb
for reasons. Just assume that I need this specific browser of this specific version and that there’s no alternative.
However, that deb depends on packages (such as the gstreamer0.10 series) which are not in my distribution anymore (Debian testing). This makes apt fail on every operation except apt remove opera
with dependency errors:
# apt install cli-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
opera : Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good but it is not installable
Recommends: flashplugin-nonfree but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
apt --fix-broken install
will just propose to remove opera:
# apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
opera
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 92 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 46.6 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Currently, my workaround is to install Opera when I need it, and remove it as soon as anything else needs to be done with apt. This is annoying.
Any suggestions? Ideally, I’d like to make apt ignore the dependencies of opera forever, since it works well-enough for my purposes.