On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 09:06:06PM -0500, Henry White wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:55:28PM +0000, Lane Lester wrote: > > > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and > > > apt-get -f install solves most... > > > > Is that safe? I seem to recall doing that once some time ago, and it > > mangled my system. It would still run, but I recall an awful lot of stuff > > got changed. > > Short answer: no, any 'force' is likely to break things. You're actually > mileage may vary, so you may be very lucky, you may not. You want to take > that risk? It could be a great learning experience; or hours and hours just > chasing your tail ;-) It's up to you.
-f in apt-get stands for "--fix-broken", not "--force". fix-broken should be relatively save. Read the manpage for more information. -- finger for GPG public key.
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