On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 05:16, Satish Balay wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > > > Hi, just had a wonderful experience with apt-get while running a > > dist-upgrade.... > > > It crashed after installing a couple of hundred packages, leaving my > > system with dual installs of those packages. > > sounds nasty. > > > What I had to do was manually remove all the packages not needed, or at > > least that was what i ended up doing. > > Just wondered if anyone has a better solution for this, is there a tool > > for checking for dual installs and removing the lowest version? > > perhaps 'apt-get --fix-broken' - if it worked as per the man page info.. > > Satish > Nope, apt-get --fix-broken only installs missing packages as far as I can see, tried it and it didn't work... Nasty? Yeah, incredibly boring job... Sturla
