Re: [SLUG] "broken packages"

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2006 - 12:09:44 EST


> On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Kwan Lowe wrote:
>
>>> Synaptic tells me I have two broken packages. How do I locate them, and
>>> remove their remains?
>>
>> You can try running an RPM verify:
>> rpm -va
>>
>> Look for packages with a 5 (MD5sum error).
>
> For RPM that works. I use apt*. Unless it works both ways?

Synaptic works with apt which can use RPMs. If you're base package management is RPM
then the above will work. I don't use Synaptic myself, but I understand it to be
similar to yum or urpmi.

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