On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, Gary Roach wrote: > Thanks for your help. As suggested, I first ran debsum on kate and > libreoffice. All check sums were OK.
It's most likely not libreoffice or kate itself, but one of its dependencies. Something like: aptitude search -F '%p' '?reverse-Depends(libreoffice)~i'|xargs debsums -c; > I then ran the reverse-Depends as suggested above on kate. This > cleared the problem. Kate now works fine. The reverse-Depends run on > Libreoffice returned - E: Couldn't configure pre-depend dpkg:amd64 for > libreoffice-common:amd64, probably a dependency cycle. aptitude reinstall '?reverse-Depends(libreoffice)~i~not(~name(dpkg))' You might have to repeat the ~not() bit if there are other packages involved in a dependency cycle. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
