The reason there are broken dependencies is because a package won't install. There is a bug in it that must be fixed before it will work. I want to be able to install completely unrelated packages with apt-get in the mean time. Is that possible?
Ben Pharr On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:59:55PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there a way to install or dist-upgrade with apt-get even when > > there are broken dependencies? > > You need to use 'apt-get -f install' to fix the broken dependencies > first. (Or, possibly, generate dummy packages using 'equivs', but > you're more likely to be happy with a correct, functional system.)
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