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[Donny George]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:57 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 06/26/2008 08:34 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Donnerstag, den 26.06.2008, 08:21 -0700 schrieb NoOp:
> >
> >> sudo apt-get build-dep ubuntu-desktop
> > ugh, dont !
> > unless you want to recompile desktop packages  ...
> > build dep only pulls in tons of -dev packages you dont need ...
> >
> > the xfree tarballs very likely also overwrote x libraries, look at
> > dereks command it seems to best cover all xorg packages ...
> >
> > ciao
> >       oli
> >
> >
> >
>
> Thanks again Oli. Then I misunderstood man apt-get:
>
> build-dep
> build-dep causes apt-get to install/remove packages in an attempt to
> satisfy the build dependencies for a source package.
>
> I was thinking that would pull in any missing dependencies that may have
> been removed from the XFree86 attempt.
>
> Would this be a better choice?
>
> sudo apt-get clean
> sudo apt-get install -f
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get reinstall ~ixorg
> sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
>
>
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hello noop

apt-get clean went on without error

apt-get install -f showed error with openoffice. it says

Errors were encountered while processing:
ttf-opensymbol
openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-common
E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

sudo apt-get update did the update without error

sudo apt-get reinstall ~ixorg says E:Invalid operation reinstall

donny
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