synaptic strangeness

[Stelian Iancu]

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david wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> When I fire up Synaptic it reports there are 315 broken packages on my
> system and it is unable to fix the problem. I have "held broken
> packages". 
> I installed some xmms packages (goom, kjofol and synasthesia), the
> problem has appeared since then. If I try to get synaptic to remove
> these packages it wants to remove all 315 "broken packages" (which is
> more or less everything that's installed).
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> nux
> 
> 

Try to run

sudo apt-get -f install

and see if it can fix the problem.

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