If apt-get crash

Sturla Holm Hansen sturlahh at online.no
Tue Feb 3 07:02:53 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 05:16, Satish Balay wrote:
> 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
> 

Nope, apt-get --fix-broken only installs missing packages as far as I
can see, tried it and it didn't work...
Nasty? Yeah, incredibly boring job...

Sturla





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