Broken dependencies

claydoh at claydoh.com claydoh at claydoh.com
Tue Sep 7 01:26:23 UTC 2010


> Thanks, Clay,
>
> I've installed a few (maybe trhee or so) twitter clients through package
> manager. At that point, I could install it, test it and, if I didn't
> liket, remove it. I've never downloaded a .deb package for it.
>
> The problem is, once I tried to unistall the lastest (if I'm not
> mistaken, it was GTwitter) my package manager said it couldn't remove
> some of the dependencies, for they were broken. And so I got that error
> message for the first time.
>
> Now, I'm running Aptitude and it listed to me what I tink are two broken
> packages:
>
> libwebkit-1.0-2
> libwebkit-1.0-common
>
> But it seems I can't remove it using aptitude as well (I use the command
> to remove it and nothing happens).
>
> Kinda frustrating.
>


Try running the apt commands I listed, Ubuntu's package system is set up
dependency-wise to favor apt, and it will get us better and more clear
info on what is happening in it's messages.

Clay









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