I made a big mistake: dependency hell in Kubuntu!

[Mordecha Behar]

FYI, Cheese <http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/> is a GNOME webcam
application without hellish dependencies.
It works perfectly fine in my KDE environment.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
>
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