Using the Broken Filter to find packages in Synaptic package manager

[Ryan Rix]

AZ RUNE wrote:

> I know I have two broken package that won't let me update libnspr4-dev
> (Development files for netscape) but I am having the darndest time
> finding them even when I try to config the broken filter to point them
> out.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Brian

What's broken about them? Could you be more specific in your problem?

Have you tried dpkg-reconfigure -a or similar?

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