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Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade



On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:31:22PM -0400, charlie derr wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>> I don't have a man entry for apt-file. What is it and how do I use it to
>> solve this problem??
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
>
> aptitude update
> aptitude install apt-file
> apt-file update
>
>   and then
>
> apt-file search filename
>
>   will tell you what packages filename appears in

And, as I said, for next time. You're already hosed, and thus won't be
able to install it without undue hassle...

It's a great tool for helping solve these types of problems, assumnig
you already have it installed.

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