On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 23:54, Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]> 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 http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
