How to install a debian/ubuntu package without dependencies

Please note that you can break your system with this! This is not recommended.

Sometimes the package repository has errors. If you can't install a package because you can't install the dependencies with the package manager you can try this:

(You have to download the deb first e.g. from here Show archive.org snapshot or here Show archive.org snapshot )

Copydpkg -x bad-package.deb common
dpkg --control bad-package.deb

Then you have to edit DEBIAN/control with an editor. You can delete the broken dependencies there.

Copyvi DEBIAN/control
cp -a DEBIAN/ common/
dpkg -b common bad-package.deb
dpkg -i bad-package.deb

Now you have installed the bad-package without the broken dependencies.