Three cheers to apt-get :-) On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:29 PM, ap <gnuanu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Sajjad Anwar <sajjadkm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> I was trying to install a torrent download manager called deluge. > > > Why another torrent downloader? Transmission does a clean job for me. > > >> 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. > > > marked all four? the lib files may have dependencies. Just remove the > package you installed using dpkg command. still it removes other packages? > > >> 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. >> >> > -- Mahesh M Happy hacking... , , / \ ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) `-_---' `---_-' `--|o` 'o|--' \ ` / ): :( :o_o: "-"