James, James Tait wrote: > Hi Tony, > > Tony Arnold wrote: >> The packages it said were broken almost all of the installed ones! >> >> Something very wrong here or I'm missing something. >> >> Looks to me like I need to re-install. > > You can, if you wish, run aptitude interactively: > > $ sudo aptitude > > This will allow you to find the broken packages (press 'B' to move to > the next broken package), view their dependencies (hit 'Enter' to view > the package details and dependencies are listed there) and progressively > fix the broken dependencies. When there are no longer any broken > packages, press 'G' to apply any changes and you'll be given a > confirmation screen, where you should press 'G' again to continue, or > 'Q' to step back. '?' will give you a help menu listing the various > keyboard commands. > > I've had to do this a couple of times after upgrades that I messed up > and it's effective, although whether it's better than just re-installing > is debatable. You don't lose your custom configuration and don't risk > nuking your precious data, but it can be time consuming.
Thanks for the tip. Given aptitude is reporting 277 broken packages (!) I think I will re-install at some time. Also I looked at the first broken package which was gamin. It said it conflicts with fam, but fam has been removed but its config files are still around. As I was writing the above, I tied purging package fam and now aptitude is reporting zero broken packages! 277 broken packages to 0 by purging a single package. Amazing! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
