So I tried to upgrade mplayer. apt wanted to do what seems to be its usual
thing now, which is to uninstall package A and then install package A++.
(There were 63 things to do.) This time, it hung partway through (couldn't
remove /usr/X11/bin which is used by opera). So some things (for example
xterm) got uninstalled and never reinstalled. What I think is the solution
is to go to runlevel 1 and use aptitude (or apt-get) to fix the problem. I
don't know the syntax for either one of those. Help?
Also, Synaptic tells me there's 37 broken packages. Are the odds that those
are the ones waiting on whatever to deal with /usr/X11/bin?
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