If apt-get crash

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote:

> Hi, just had a wonderful experience with apt-get while running a
> dist-upgrade....

> It crashed after installing a couple of hundred packages, leaving my
> system with dual installs of those packages.

sounds nasty.

> What I had to do was manually remove all the packages not needed, or at
> least that was what i ended up doing.
> Just wondered if anyone has a better solution for this, is there a tool
> for checking for dual installs and removing the lowest version?

perhaps 'apt-get --fix-broken' - if it worked as per the man page info..

Satish