VVDQ : Alpine on Ubuntu??

[Heath Miller]

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:55:49 -0500
Beartooth Testbedder <Beartooth at swva.net> wrote:

> 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.

There is nothing to worry about  the -f stands for fix broken. What
happened was during the install it failed and left broken packages on
your system the apt-get -f install fixes the broken install.
>