Re: how to fix broken package

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Russell Shaw wrote:
> john john wrote:
>
> > Hi, I messed up my xserver-xfree86 package.  I had
> > already installed this package and then I had some X
> > driver issues so I went into the directories, and
> > deleted a couple of files ie. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
> > stuff.
>
>
> You probably broke another package.
>
> dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
>
>   libglide2, xlibmesa3, xserver-xfree86: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
>
> (your system might have more packages than this)
>
> apt-get update
>
> apt-get remove libglide2 xlibmesa3 xserver-xfree86
> apt-get install libglide2 xlibmesa3 xserver-xfree86 xserver-xfree86 (+deps)

This should stop dependent packages from being removed:

apt-get remove --force-depends libglide2 xlibmesa3 xserver-xfree86
apt-get install libglide2 xlibmesa3 xserver-xfree86 xserver-xfree86 (+deps)