Re: How to find broken package

[Jim Seymour <bluejay@speedfactory.net>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:57:53PM -0400, Jim Seymour wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Aptitude claims I have a broken package. I have tried dpkg, aptitude
> and synaptic looking for this broken package. Nothing has turned up
> anything of use. What is the best way to locate a broken package on
> your system?  I am running Sarge with kernel 2.6.6.
> 
>

Thanks Chris,

I did manage to find the broken package.


iB  libdiscover2                    - hardware identification library           

The strange thing is dpkg -s says that all is well with libdiscover2 and
its dependencies. Is it because it has a release critical bug status?

Thanks,

Jim Seymour