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Re: aptitude - find which package is broken?



On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:54:33PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When using aptitude, I often see '#Broken: 1' in the status bar.  For my
> particular mishmash of packages, I often find that the best way to fix
> my dependencies is by going through and selecting versions of broken
> packages and the packages they depend on.  The problem is, when I see
> '#Broken: 1', I don't know how to find that one broken package in the
> haystack 13000+ needles high.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do it?  Or is the answer really just "hold PgDn
> and look for that flash of red"?

Aptitude's manual says somthing about using '~b' to search for broken
packages. 

-- 
Jerome

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