On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:32:20PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
>
>> Urk. My apt is messed up -- I asked Synaptic to install Pan, and it
>> presented me with a dialog box:
>>
>>> To be removed
>> [68 packages]
>>> To be installed
>> [50-some packages]
>>> To be upgraded
>> [30-some packages]
>>
>> [Cancel] [OK]
>>
>> No thanks, I'll go for source.
>>
>> That is, unless there's an apt wizard in the audience.
>
> Whenever you run into this, go to a console or xterm, and type:
>
> apt-get install mypackage
>
> It may do *some* of the same, but usually doesn't drag 50 packages along
> with it the way aptitude and synaptic do.
Would it also uninstall those 68 packages? Among them I saw synaptic and
evince and it'd suck to lose those and 66 others. I hold no expectation
that apt-get could actually _do_ it (it'd probably hit a snag before it got
that far), but still.
FTR, I installed Pan on the laptop, no problem. Except that I'd rather have
it here, that is.
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