I made a big mistake: dependency hell!

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:17, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 01/23/2011 12:29 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> In trying to install Digikam 1.7 on Kubuntu 10.10 I got myself into
>> dependency hell. I was installing some Natty packages with dpkg. Now I
>> cannot even open Konsole, Dolphin, or any other KDE app other that
>> what is already open. When I try to "apt-get install -f" in a virtual
>> terminal it wants to remove almost everything! Of course, I cannot cut
>> and paste from there. Of course, the apt-get database is up to date
>> with the proper repos.
>>
>> Help! I don't know what to do! I tried removing the last packages
>> installed as listed in /var/lib/dpkg/info (with a simple ls -la
>> command in there), but aptitiude and apt-get both want to remove 200
>> packages even when I try to remove just those ten or so.
>>
>
> sudo dpkg -r package_name
>

Interestingly, this made me discover that some critical packages are
only unpacked but not installed, such as libkdeui5. I wonder if / how
I accidentally removed that. This is probably my problem. Thanks.


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