On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, James Harper <james@ejbdigital.com.au> wrote:
I am running Debian Jessie and want to install the latest Zabbix server package. It is packaged in zabbix's own repository, as Debian doesn't yet package the latest version.
Because the Zabbix provided package is built against Wheezy, it depends on libsnmp15, which isn't available in Jessie. I used equivs to build a dummy package, but libsnmp30 is flagged as breaking libsnmp15, so my dummy package won't install.
Any suggestions on how I can get around this, without building from source? I'm hoping I could put some flags in my dummy libsnmp15 package that would allow it to install despite the flags in libsnmp30 that say it can't.
I'm reluctant to use override flags for installing because they just come back and bite later on.
All these things you are describing with dummy packages don't seem likely to result in a reliable working system. Why is it so difficult to rebuild Zabbix from source?
Is there some bigger problem here you didn't mention?
Looking for an easy way out :) I ended up rebuilding from source, but it required a bit of extra work (control file edits mainly) to make it happen under Jessie. All good now. Graphs look beautiful. Thanks James