> On 20010519.1101, Timothy L. Bolz said ...
>
> I have one broken package which isn't allowing me to reinstall the the
> things I need to get X back up. Is there a way to track down that package
> and remove it or should I just wipe the system and start over. I used
> conosole-apt which is nice and told me I had one broken package. It
> didn't tell me what package was broken. I could wipe the whole partion but
> I shouldn't have to do this it's not WINDOWS. The greatest thing is I
> still working, but in the console mode.
>
> The installers are dselect,console-apt,tasksel, and apt-get are ther any
> others? Can you get a printout of all installed Debian packages and all
> of the packages not installed? Is there a program like Go back for linux
> which you run before installing a program.
I just tried 'aptitude' - you can apt-get it - and it's pretty cool.
Press '?' to learn the commands. It's a curses based apt front end.
-Rob
