Re: Using the Broken Filter to find packages in Synaptic package manager

[Ryan Rix]

AZ RUNE wrote:

> I know I have two broken package that won't let me update libnspr4-dev
> (Development files for netscape) but I am having the darndest time
> finding them even when I try to config the broken filter to point them
> out.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Brian

What's broken about them? Could you be more specific in your problem?

Have you tried dpkg-reconfigure -a or similar?

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Re: Using the Broken Filter to find packages in Synaptic package manager

[AZ RUNE]

Here is the error

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libnspr4-dev_4.7.5-0ubuntu0.9.04.1_i386.deb:
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/aclocal/nspr.m4', which is also in
package kompozer-dev

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:45 PM, AZ RUNE wrote:
> I know I have two broken package that won't let me update libnspr4-dev
> (Development files for netscape) but I am having the darndest time
> finding them even when I try to config the broken filter to point them
> out.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Brian
>
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