[ILUG] [Q] Pretend Ubuntu packages are installed?

[Brian Foster]

 On Kbuntu 9.10, is there some way of telling (presumably)
 apt-get(8) to not install certain “required” packages?
 I want to install asciidoc(1), but it “requires” LaTeX,
 which is Ok, except I've already got LaTeX installed via
 TeXlive and have no interest in the Ubuntu packages.

 I could go ahead and install Ubuntu LaTeX, as it won't
 (I know, having been in a similar situation before) feck
 anything up, but it is not-needed and was rather confusing.

 And can I permanently mark it as “don't install, just
 pretend/accept that it is installed” or similar?
 And(sorry!) if that is possible, how would I remove the
 marking (since “permanently” is a rather long time).

cheers!
	-blf-

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