Help!!! adept nightmare

[Frode M. Døving]

Torsdag 02 november 2006 20:00, skrev D. R. Evans:
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> But then I will never know when there's a real update unless I keep
> opening the updater and checking.
>
> So, yes, ignoring the problem is, I suppose, one option (akin to
> ignoring the error messages that pop up on my wife's Windows box at
> boot time). But I really want the system to forget all about
> vmware-player.
>
> (And I figure that there's a good chance that if adept is this
> confused about one package, it's only a matter of time before it gets
> equally confused about more packages. And then there's the corollory:
> what if I actually wanted to have vmware-player on my system? Right
> now, there seems no way I could install it even if I wanted to.)
>
> So really I need to find a way to get the database into a self-consistent
> state.

Konsole and apt-get to the rescue.

If you want to install vmware-player:
Open Konsole (kmenu -> system -> konsole)
Run the command:
$ sudo apt-get install vmware-player

If you don't want it:
Open Konsole (kmenu -> system -> konsole)
Run the command:
$ sudo apt-get --purge remove vmware-player

Hope it works for you.

- Frode