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So I force installed Vuze (and its dependency Azureus) via apt-get, and it is working fine on default-jre.

Even though the default-jre works as a dependency for Azureus (at least for my use-case scenario), the dependency check inside Azureus package demands an older and dated version of JRE, and I am being bombarded with unmet dependency message.

Each time I perform some apt-get operation, I get greeted with these:

You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 azureus : Depends: openjdk-7-jre but it is not installable or
                    openjdk-6-jre but it is not installable or
                    sun-java5-jre but it is not installable or
                    sun-java6-jre but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Edit: I do not want to "resolve" the dependency issue, because there is no dependency issue to resolve. The warning is erroneous because the dependency check inside Azureus is outdated.

Is there any way to tell Ubuntu to ignore the dependencies for this specific package?

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  • And what happens if you do what it tells you to do? What does a sudo apt-get -f install do? Edit: It probably asks you to remove it. Fair point. – Oli Apr 29 '16 at 08:47
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    Possible duplicate of How do I resolve unmet dependencies after adding a PPA? – blade19899 Apr 29 '16 at 08:57
  • I have read that thread you linked. That thread is about genuine unmet dependencies, mine is about a misunderstanding between packages. It is a very specific case. That being said, Azureus is not an available tag here. I don't have enough rep points to create a new tag. Can anyone create the tag so that in future people might have easier time finding Oli's answer when they search for the same issue? – Spero Apr 29 '16 at 13:13
  • Possible duplicate of How to fake a package version installed? – muru Apr 30 '16 at 18:45
  • @Muru Those who do not know that package version can be faked will not search for that as a possible solution. Besides, this question has multiple answers. Faking package version is just one of those answers. You yourself edited the second answer. – Spero May 02 '16 at 18:37
  • @user140259 if dupes were only for things that people would search as a possible solution, I'd agree that would be relevant. And you'll note the time gap between this close vote and the edit. FWIW, I VTC'd in the review queue, where only the question and comments are seen, not answers. – muru May 02 '16 at 18:49
  • @muru Thanks for the upvote. Sorry I am not trying to debate you, I am quite new here. The only guideline I read about dupes is this blog post :http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/ – Spero May 02 '16 at 19:34

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You can't tell Ubuntu to ignore the problem, but you can fake the installation of a package by building a dummy version. It's not that painful.

sudo apt install equivs
nano openjdk-7-jre

Paste in something like the following:

Section: misc
Priority: optional

Package: openjdk-7-jre
Description: Dummy package

And then run:

equivs-build openjdk-7-jre
sudo dpkg -i openjdk-7-jre_1.0_all.deb
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  • Sorry I can't upvote because lack of rep points, but that was great answer. It instantly solved the issue. many thanks. – Spero Apr 29 '16 at 11:21
  • There should be a little tick underneath the score to mark this as the accepted answer. – Oli Apr 29 '16 at 13:04
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I have found another "arguably more appropriate" answer. This will give you the ability to edit out the wrong dependency inside the culprit package. Unlike the dummy package method, this will not affect the entire system.

You need atool (sudo apt install dpkg-dev devscripts atool) and gdebi (dpkg will do too, but I prefer gdebi)

$pkg = the name of the package that is causing issue.

apt-get download $pkg
mkdir pkg
atool -X pkg $pkg
vi pkg/DEBIAN/control
# [This is where you edit out the wrong dependencies]
rm -vf $pkg && dpkg-deb -b pkg $pkg
sudo gdebi $pkg

In my case, the line that I had to edit was :

Depends: openjdk-7-jre | openjdk-6-jre | sun-java5-jre | sun-java6-jre, libcommons-cli-java, liblog4j1.2-java, libswt-gtk-3-java, java-wrappers

Thank goes to sergall for this solution. Method has been personally verified by me.

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"Is there any way to tell Ubuntu to ignore the dependencies for this specific package?"

No.

Why

If you need to talk to a french person, you need a translator - or learn french -, that will translate french words to english for you. You depend on that translator - or some other medium - to converse properly to that person.

Vuze has its own dependencies, which he depends on to work properly.

Also, Linux has much better, faster, safer torrent clients available by default.

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