Re: How to find broken package
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:28:44PM -0400, Jim Seymour wrote:
> 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,
Well I ran aptitude again today and it said that it fixed a broken
package. All looks great now. Funny that it didn't fix it before now.
Later,
Jim
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