Apt dependency hell

[Paul Lussier]

"Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name> writes:

>> Try using aptitude install foo. I find that aptitude seems to do a
>> better job of "fixing" things than apt-get.
>
> Different mechanisms/algorithyms?  What about synaptic?  Hmmm

I haven't played with synaptic yet.  aptitude, from my understanding,
is a re-write of the apt-get dependency resolving routines, but I'm
not entirely clear on that either (I really ought to go read up on
this stuff... ;)  

aptitude, if provided no command line args drops into a dselect-like
system, but is significantly more usable.

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Paul
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