Boxee package without flashplugin-nonfree dependancy

[euxneks]

system: Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64

I need to install boxee on a 64 bit system without having the flashplugin-nonfree dependancy. I have installed flash 10 64 bit (not from a repo) so I already have flash. As you can probably already guess, I don't want the repo version of the flash plugin because I have found it extremely glitchy.

I used to be able to modify the 64 bit deb package with "videbcontrol" but it doesn't seem to work anymore, as I am able to remove the dependancy and install (and boxee works after), but apt later says that the boxee package is broken and depends upon flashplugin-nonfree - and wants to install it! D'oh!

Any tips? Suggestions? I would love it if there was a 64 bit deb package that doesn't have that dependancy, but I kind of doubt that's going to happen

[krich]

The way i solved this issue was to create a dummy package for flashplugin-nonfree

sudo apt-get install equivs

equivs-control flashplugin-nonfree

edit the created file 'flashplugin-nonfree' and change line 8 from

Package: <package name; defaults to equivs-dummy>

to

Package: flashplugin-nonfree

save the file

then

equivs-build flashplugin-nonfree

install the resulting .deb file

dpkg -i flashplugin-nonfree_1.0_all.deb

now you can install boxee with no complaints....

if you do need to add the true flashplugin-nonfree package later, remove the dummy package.