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Re: Equivalence to apt-get install -f



On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:33:28PM -0800, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> was heard to say:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:59:56AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis <umarzuki@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> > For aptitude, is there an equivalence to
> > # apt-get install -f
> 
>   Just plain "aptitude install" will try to fix any broken dependencies.

  Note that aptitude has a "-f" option, but it does something different:
it disables the hints that aptitude normally gives the resolver which
tell it to try extra hard not to change the actions you passed on the
command-line.

  Daniel


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