[ubuntu-uk] Aptitude dependency hell
Tony Travis
ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk
Wed Feb 7 01:03:53 GMT 2007
Tony Arnold wrote:
> I've just run aptitude in full screen mode for the first time on my
> Dapper system and in the third line down it tells me:
>
> #Broken: 235 Will free 915MB of disk space DL: 5576kB
> [...]
Hello, Tony.
Try running aptitude in command-line mode:
aptitude -f install
This seems to be better at fixing broken packages than
apt-get -f install
It's got me out of many deep holes :-)
Tony.
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