[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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