________________________________ From: Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:22 AM Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay > between dpkg and apt is still (to me) quite marvellous. > Get a .deb from somewhere (Skype, for example) and > dpkg -i <package> > followed by > apt-get -f install > gets everything sorted. The command apt-get -f install means a "force" install, am I correct?