RE: doh!!! I broke my apt...please help
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Willem-Jan Meijer [mailto:meyer3@chello.nl]
> Verzonden: vrijdag 23 mei 2003 18:34
> Aan: 'Jeremy Petzold'
> Onderwerp: RE: doh!!! I broke my apt...please help
>
>
> Jeremy Petzold wrote:
>> I was in the middle of configuring a package and there was a bug in
>> the config proccess and it would not let me advance any more (this is
>> involving the damn jre) so I killed the proccess. now when I try to
>> apt-get anything I get:
>>
>> E: The package j2re1.4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
>> archive for it.
>>
>> I tried apt-get -f install and apt-get -m install, nothing works!!!
>>
>> what do I do now?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Jeremy
>
>
> Maybe you can try it with first uninstall the package. If you have to
> remove a lot of other packages due to dependencies you can go to the
> directory wich contains the .deb file and do dpkg -i j2re1.4.deb
>
> -WJ
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