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Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies



On Tue 03 Jun 2014 at 15:50:38 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote:

> 
>  From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
> 
> > 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?

No. please see apt-get(8) (man apt-get)


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