Lesson learned about apt-get -f install...

Michael S. Jessop candiazoo at comcast.net
Sun Oct 17 05:10:57 UTC 2004


...me being an apt newbie and all, I thought I should warn everyone to
be careful when trying to resolve dependencies.  :)  I trashed my entire
system last night and had to rebuild it today and all I was trying to do
was get that MailNotifier applet installed.  *sigh*.

Even if a package tells you to "run apt-get -f install" to fix whatever
seems to be ailing it... make sure you review what it wants to do before
you commit to it.

Mike





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