I made a big mistake: dependency hell in Kubuntu!

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 00:57, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
> As I mentioned: 'aptitude install' And don't blindly accept its first
> offer.
>

That was the first thing that I tried when you mentioned that -f is
different in aptitude. But it still wanted to remove some 200
packages, which scroll off the screen and one cannot even review what
they all are. I tried use GNU Screen but as aptitude is waiting for
CLI input it breaks Screen scrolling.

Then I discovered that in aptitude one can press "e" for a fullscreen
ncurses application! It even has minesweeper built in! With that I was
able to narrow the problem down to a broken critical KDE component.
Configuring the KDE Beta Ubuntu repo will upgrade the system to KDE
4.6 and solve that dependency. It's updating now.



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