understanding broken package

Emmet Hikory emmet.hikory at gmail.com
Sun Oct 7 15:15:26 UTC 2007


On 10/7/07, João Pinto <lamego.pinto at gmail.com> wrote:
> From your answer, dpkg is a low level package handling tool which has no
> integrity enforcement (from the installed packages perspective).
> Apt-get is an APT repository based package install tool, out of the scope of
> my question, is there any other file based package management tool which is
> dependencies aware (I mean installed packages dependency)?

   gdebi will install files, after checking dependencies (and even
check the archives, and download the necessary dependencies).

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Emmet HIKORY


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