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

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 01:10 -0400, Michael S. Jessop wrote:

> ...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.
> 
Use "aptitude" instead of "apt-get" ... the command line interface is
much the same, but it gives you a lot more chance to review and fix what
it's about to do.

(At the Y/n prompt you can do things like +package, -package, =package,
or just hit 'e' to enter the UI and fix things)

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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