Re: Problem using "dpkg -i"
On 2018-01-16, deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>
>> Instead of using apt, next time use aptitude -f install, reason is if
>> aptitude can not fix the problem it will give you a clue as what you can
>> do. Also if you apt install and run 'upgrade-system' upgrade-system
>> will tell what to do, and clean your system too.
>
> I thought aptitude was obsolated - never used it, but I think there was a
> thread on the list about
>
Obsolated: portmanteau of deprecated and obsolete?
I thought it was merely not recommended for upgrades.
PS: Have you ever performed 'apt-get moo'? (You don't need to be root.)
Gives you a cow.
'aptitude moo' (if you persist by increasing the verbosity with ever more
v's) produces a snake eating an elephant. Maybe that's why it may have been
obsolated (illogical, Captain).
PSS:
Knock knock.
Who's there?
The interruptive cow.
The interruptive c...
Moo!
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