Public bug reported: apt-get --help says, among other things:
-f Attempt to continue if the integrity check fails under Options. The man page differs significantly: -f, --fix-broken Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. This option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages to permit APT to deduce a likely so lution. Any Package that are specified must completely correct the problem. The op tion is sometimes necessary when running APT for the first time; APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system. It is possible that a sys tems dependency structure can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention (which usually means using dselect(8) or dpkg --remove to eliminate some of the offending packages). Use of this option together with -m may produce an error in some situa tions. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Fix-Broken. The man page is correct. ** Affects: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- apt-get --help conflicts with both man page and reality https://launchpad.net/bugs/57487 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs