Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
On Tue 03 Jun 2014 at 15:50:38 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:
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> From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
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> > 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
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> > dpkg -i <package>
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> > followed by
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> > apt-get -f install
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> > gets everything sorted.
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> The command
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> apt-get -f install
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> means a "force" install, am I correct?
No. please see apt-get(8) (man apt-get)
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