Hi Conor! On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 21:46 +0100, Conor Paterson wrote: > After installing rdesktop through apt, somehow, it broke a lot of unrelated > software (by removing certain c libs or something like that... I closed the > terminal) and apt stopped working... Every time I tried to install/remove a > package, it would tell me to run apt-get -f install... however, this didn't > fix > anything and told me to remove packages that I couldn't remove. Please give me more details. What was the correct command line? Was it apt-get upgrade or apt-get install rdesktop? Have you run apt-get update just before the install?
> I had to type "apt-get -o DPkg::Options::="--force-overwrite", which seemed > to fix my system. What was the exact problem, can you remember what happened when it was fixated? > If I hadn't got help from #debian, I wouldn't have fixed this... Do you have a log of that conversation? > If someone would like to contact me in more detail, reach me at this address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any more information, please share it with me. Anyway, I think it was due to the libc6 transition and not due to rdesktop. Thanks, Laszlo/GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
