On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 06:55 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi Simone,
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:36:47PM +0200, Simone Soldateschi wrote:
> >
> > I had a similar problem two days ago trying to update 'libwx2.6-dev' from
> > backports.
> > 'apt-get' failed package upgrade due to unmet dependencies and I was unable
> > to fix the problem with 'apt -f install'.
> > A debian user suggested me to fix the problem using synaptic and filtering
> > defective packages.. it did the job.
> >
>
>
> I do not have synaptic installed, and can no longer install anything
> until I get this thing fixed. Catch 22! I'll keep that in mind though.
There is always dpkg-deb
dpkg-deb -X /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%
3a7.0.20_i386.deb /
That will extract and make certain things usable until you can get the
packages correctly installed. Personally I have saved a couple of
peoples machines this way. One fixing an upgrade from Breezy Badger to
Dapper Duck (being of course Ubuntu)... but I digress.
Use of these commands is exceptionally "use at your own risk of blowing
up your machines config, with no sympathy from anyone". So use caution.
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