VVDQ : Alpine on Ubuntu??

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Em Monday 07 January 2008 14:55:49 Beartooth Testbedder escreveu:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:31:36 +0100, Alejandro wrote:
> 
> > 
> > El lun, 07-01-2008 a las 10:35 -0500, Beartooth Testbedder escribió:
> >> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> >> specify a solution).
> > 
> > Have you tried this? ;)
> > 
> > Alejandro
> 
> 	No, of course not -- that's why I asked  -- *first* : 
> 
> > 	But I'm almighty leery of any kind of -f option, let alone an install
> > command with no argument. Do I really want to do that?? What does it
> > mean by "(or specify a solution)"??
> 
> 	If I ever saw a computer response that looked more like an invitation to
> disaster than that, I don't want to remember. I wouldn't be caught dead
> trying such a thing, let alone as root, without some sort of expert
> reassurance in advance.
> 

If you don't specify a package, it's mostly harmless (like the planet earth). 
It will rebuild the dependencies DB of the packages (both installed and 
installable).

 "(or specify a solution)" means you also have the option of trying to resolve 
the "dependency hell" manually, assuming it's created by the availability 
(and choice) of many different versions of some packages being available. 
This is never the case in a normal situation, that is, if you only use the 
official repositories. Do you have non-standard repositories in your 
sources.list?

FF