[fsug-calicut] Re: Problem in debian

  • From: ap <gnuanu@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: fsug-calicut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:29:41 +0530

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.
>
>

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