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How can I install a package without installing some dependencies?

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I'm trying to install the package LaTeXila, and the output looks like this:

$ sudo apt-get install latexila --no-install-recommends

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

  latexila-data latexmk luatex tex-common texlive-base texlive-binaries

  texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-latex-base

Suggested packages:

  rubber texlive-latex-extra debhelper

Recommended packages:

  texlive texlive-latex-recommended texlive-luatex lmodern

  texlive-latex-base-doc

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  latexila latexila-data latexmk luatex tex-common texlive-base

  texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-latex-base

0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 29.3 MB of archives.

After this operation, 74.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

I don't want to install the texlive packages. I've installed texlive manually from http://www.tug.org/texlive/. Any suggestions?

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answered 2 Years ago panshow · Accepted Answer

apt-get won't do this, but dpkg will.

apt-get download latexila latexila-data

That will download the binary .deb files but will not attempt to install them.

Now you can use dpkg to force install them.

dpkg --force-all -i <name of the .deb files you downloaded>

I will echo the warning in the dpkg man page here:

Warning: These options are mostly intended to be used by experts only. Using them without fully understanding their effects may break your whole system.

If your system is broken after attempting this, you can just try to remove latexila and latexila-data. Good luck.