Re: dependency hell OR it should not be this hard

Shachar Shemesh <[email protected]> Sun, 11 Aug 2019 11:43:20 +0300
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/08/2019 9:05, Shlomo Solomon
      wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote type="cite"
      cite="mid:20190811090524.57705c73-6DQFGB4t/PID1OyFFgn/[email protected]">
      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Let me start by saying that I'm not looking for a solution - I solved my
problem. I'm just angry and letting off some steam. </pre>
    </blockquote>
    I'll do my best to defend.<br>
    <blockquote type="cite"
      cite="mid:20190811090524.57705c73-6DQFGB4t/PID1OyFFgn/[email protected]">
      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">binations of commands such as:

sudo apt-get --fix-broken install
sudo apt autoremove
sudo dpkg -P mono-complete
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq mono-complete
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" upgrade
sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" -f install
sudo dpkg -P --force-all mono-complete
sudo dpkg --configure -a</pre>
    </blockquote>
    <p>Or just use aptitude.</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>It allows you to schedule as many dpkg operations as you need to
      get things working, including multiple suggestions how to
      automatically fix your problem, allowing you to choose between
      them.
    </p>
    <blockquote type="cite"
      cite="mid:20190811090524.57705c73-6DQFGB4t/PID1OyFFgn/[email protected]">
      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">

I discovered that there were some post removal scripts that were
crashing dpkg and the solution was to manually remove several files
from /var/lib/dpkg/info.

WOW - isn't that a "pretty" way to go.</pre>
    </blockquote>
    <p>It is not.</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>In Linux's (Debian's, in this case) defense, a bug in the
      installation script is never easy to recover from. On Windows,
      you'd be in much worse a state under similar circumstances.</p>
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    </p>
    <p>Shachar<br>
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