synaptic strangeness

[david]

On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 21:52 +0300, Stelian Iancu wrote:
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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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> Stelian Iancu | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0x023C22CF

Nope.
Several pages of text scrolled past and ended with "segmentation fault".
Hmmmm.
Well, everything works OK. Nothing needs installing. Might just leave it
till Breezy RC1 comes out.

nux