From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
> The advent of apt was a gigantic step forward for Debian. The interplay between dpkg and apt is still (to me) quite marvellous.
> Get a .deb from somewhere (Skype, for example) and
> dpkg -i <package>
> followed by
> apt-get -f install
> gets everything sorted.
The command
apt-get -f install
means a "force" install, am I correct?