Installing Stellarium 10.1 in Hardy

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 18:15:00 UTC 2009


2009/2/26 Jan Litwiński <jlitwinski at vp.pl>:
> Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2009/2/26 Jan Litwiński <jlitwinski at vp.pl>:
>>> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Although I do have the Backports repo enabled, I cannot install the
>>>> stellarium 10.1 .deb from Launchpad on Hardy, as I am missing many
>>>> dependencies:
>>
>>> try this:
>>> sudo apt-get -f install
>>
>> Why?  The guy that packaged that program thought it needed those
>> dependencies - what do you know than he didn't?
>>
>> Recommending a forced install, especially without explaining what it's
>> doing to somebody less knowledgeable than Dotan could cause them a lot
>> of grief.  Please don't do that!
> don't warry,from the man page:
>
> -f, --fix-broken

Duh.... sorry.... I'll go crawl back under a rock...  I keep reading
that as 'force' :-(

Brian




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