On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> 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. Now I > cannot even open Konsole, Dolphin, or any other KDE app other that > what is already open. When I try to "apt-get install -f" in a virtual > terminal it wants to remove almost everything! Of course, I cannot cut > and paste from there. Of course, the apt-get database is up to date > with the proper repos. > > Help! I don't know what to do! I tried removing the last packages > installed as listed in /var/lib/dpkg/info (with a simple ls -la > command in there), but aptitiude and apt-get both want to remove 200 > packages even when I try to remove just those ten or so. > > Maybe try to run 'ldd' on a binary that doesn't work, see if there's a missing lib there. If you find one, try to re-install the package that provides that lib manually... Warning: That comes from a Gentoo user. :) HTH, -- Shimi
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