Re: half-installed packages
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> I was walking my gf through an install of Debian (it didn't scare her,
> and she's no techie), and everything went fine until she tried
> installing some stuff.
>
> Installing task-x-window-system basically choked, and now she is left
> with a bunch of half-installed packages. I can't tinker with it myself
> since she is annoyingly located hundreds of miles away from me.
>
> What is the official correct way to deal with lots of half-installed
> packages?
>
> Also, while I'm asking, if you install a task, what's the quickest and
> easiest way to just get rid of everything it installs? She installed a
> couple other tasks in tasksel before realizing it would probably be
> better to start with a minimal system and apt-get as needed..
I had this happen a couple of times because my apt sources.list file didn't
have everything it needed to get the appropiate dependencies. It returned an
error and the next time I ran apt-get install it told me to run...
apt-get -f install
...with no packages listed. I guess this forces it to complete the install
and then you can try to grab the rest of the dependencies. I don't know if
this will work for you but good luck.
Jesse
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