[SOLVED] Generic "apt" question but RaspPi-related
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Distribution: openSUSE, Raspbian, Slackware. Previous: MacOS, Red Hat, Coherent, Consensys SVR4.2, Tru64, Solaris
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Generic "apt" question but RaspPi-related
I'm running into an error message when I issue "sudo apt upgrade" informing me that three packages are not completely installed or are removed.
Can anyone shed a little light on just what this means? Apparently something is at least partially broken in the configuration but apt is not telling me what packages it's seeing a problem with.
Distribution: openSUSE, Raspbian, Slackware. Previous: MacOS, Red Hat, Coherent, Consensys SVR4.2, Tru64, Solaris
Posts: 2,800
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Originally Posted by Timothy Miller
Try fixing it with
Code:
sudo apt install -f
Ah... thanks. That didn't fix it but at least it generated enough information to let me know that a previous installation of Xemacs had failed at some point. (It would be nice if "apt list" gave you an option to see the names of borked packages.) I deleted the partially installed/configured packages and all is well.
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