Aptitude--any users!

[Dotan Cohen]

If anyone still cares, this is why I love aptitude as opposed to apt-get:

✈demios:cliMono$ sudo apt-get install libmono-windowsbase-cil-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libmono-windowsbase-cil-dev : Depends: libmono-windowsbase3.0-cil (=
1.0-2) but 2.6.7-5ubuntu3 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
✈demios:cliMono$ sudo aptitude install libmono-windowsbase-cil-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libmono-windowsbase-cil-dev{b}
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,188 B of archives. After unpacking 36.9 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libmono-windowsbase-cil-dev: Depends: libmono-windowsbase3.0-cil (=
1.0-2) but 2.6.7-5ubuntu3 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     libmono-windowsbase-cil-dev [Not Installed]

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

✈demios:cliMono$

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