I made a big mistake: dependency hell in Kubuntu!

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 23:54, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:19:53PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> In trying to install Digikam 1.7 on Kubuntu 10.10 I got myself into
>> dependency hell. I was installing some Natty packages with dpkg.
>
> Why would you do that?
>

Because I had it working in a previous distro, and my Digikam database
is now the 1.7 version.


> Try aptitude. Its resolver may be smart enough to offer you some other
> options.
>

I've been through about twenty of aptitude's suggestions, they all
involve removing some 200 packages such as Firefox and Plasma.


> BTW: 'aptitude -f' is something you should not use. It's not the
> equivalent of 'apt-get -f'. The equivalent of 'apt-get install -f' is
> normally 'aptitude install'
>

Oh, that's good to know. Thanks! I know that yum's -f is "force" but
apt-get's -f is "fix". It was bad to assume that aptitude's -f would
be as that of apt-get!


> Also try the the option '--dry-run' of aptitude  / apt-get to get a list
> of packages it wants to remove.
>

No need, aptitude tells me what it wants to remove anyway.


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