[fsug-calicut] Re: Problem in debian

  • From: മഹേഷ് മുകുന്ദന് | Mahesh M <maheshmukundan@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: fsug-calicut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:52:04 +0530

Three cheers to apt-get :-)

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:29 PM, ap <gnuanu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Sajjad Anwar <sajjadkm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hello.
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>> I was trying to install a torrent download manager called deluge.
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> Why another torrent downloader? Transmission does a clean job for me.
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>> As usual got a series of dependency problems. I somehow downloaded all the
>> required dependencies. and then tried to install it again using dpkg -i. But
>> this time also it returned series of errors, of dependency. I thought to
>> remove the broken packages, went to synaptic package manager and i found 4
>> files one is deluge, others are 2 libs and python-glade. I marked for
>> complete removal.
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> marked all four? the lib files may have dependencies. Just remove the
> package you installed using dpkg command. still it removes other packages?
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>> A strange thing happened. The synaptic started to remove many of my
>> packages including gdm, rythmbox etc. to save from this, i forced a restart.
>> my synaptic is still in the broken state. i cant uninstall the broken
>> packages since it removes many other useful packages. Im confused. What
>> should i do now?
>> Please help immediately.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
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Mahesh M
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