Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

Jeffry Smith jsmith at alum.mit.edu
Sun May 10 21:20:34 EDT 2015


On May 10, 2015 9:17 PM, "Jeffry Smith" <jsmith at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> The -f flag tells apt to try and fix errors.
>
> I run Debian. Sometimes either "apt-get -f install" works.  Also,
running "dpkg --configure -a" (which tells dpkg to try & configure all the
partially installed packages) will SOMETIMES unbork it.  Without seeing the
exact error,  I also can't give you better advice.

(fixed my wording)
>
> On May 10, 2015 9:08 PM, "David Rysdam" <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
>>
>> Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at hackerposse.com> writes:
>> > Can you run "apt-get install -f 2>&1 | tee apt-errors.log"
>>
>> OT, but why not just:
>>
>>     apt-get install > apt-errors.log 2>&1
>>
>> ?
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