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Author: Michael Havens
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To: gm5729, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: fixing apt
but the Man page says 'f' is fix-broken.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, gk <> wrote:

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> F != fix broken...
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> - -f == force
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> If you spend any time in Debian's IRC they pretty much tell you NEVER
> use -f. NO system is that far gone to not be fixed by the other means
> Lisa mentioned. Dpkg is the package manager, dselect is another low end
> function and APT/itude is a front end would I've never had fail me. If
> you start with apt get you have to stay with it. IF you start with
> Aptitude manuals say to stay with it.
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> Too many horror stories on Synaptic. The only GUI package manager I have
> had that worked every time was in Sabayon, and it is called Entropy, IIRC.
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> VP
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