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[Pete Smout]

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On 02/11/2014 11:54 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 11 February 2014 07:54, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Oops sorry :) sudo apt-get -f install
>>>
>>> Is this to install, or done after install?
>>
>> This should force (-f) all dependencies and missing lib files that your
>> system thinks it needs to be installed, hopefully ending any missing
>> dependency errors!
> 
> `apt-get install -f` just means "fix". It tries to sort any dependency
> problems by adding or removing dependencies without needing to also
> add or remov any additional whole programs.
> 
>>>> Sudo apt-get configure -a
>>
>> oops sorry that should have been sudo dpkg configure -a (too early for
>> me ;))
>> that should configure all (-a) see
> 
> I was going to query that. I am not sure but I think you have still
> given it wrongly. I think you are trying to say that Rikona should use
> the `dpkg-reconfigure` command?

No dpkg -configure -a is the command I have used with great success in
the past, but I will bow to superior knowledge!

> This generates fresh configuration files for an installed package.
> 
> However, what nobody has mentioned is `apt-get purge` which is a
> useful command, which removes all config files for a program that has
> been removed.
> 
> The sequence would normally go
> 
> [1] dpkg-reconfigure foo
> 
> # Write a fresh config for program `foo`
> 
> `foo` still not working? Then:
> 
> [2] apt-get install -f
> 
> `foo` still not working? Then:
> 
> [3]
> 
> apt-get remove foo
> 
> # uninstall program
> 
> apt-get autoremove
> 
> # uninstall any other programs nothing now depends upon
> 
> apt-get clean
> 
> # empty the APT cache
> 
> apt-get autoclean
> 
> # more APT housekeeping
> 
> apt-get purge
> 
> # delete config files for anything no longer installed
> 
> apt-get update
> 
> # refresh APT repository database
> 
> apt-get install foo -y
> 
> # reinstall a clean copy with any dependencies
> 

Thanks for clearly showing the correct sequence for troublesome apps,
hope this helps the op (I will certainly not those commands for the future!)

Pete S
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