filtering broken packages

mikeandalaina · 06-01-2008, 02:18 PM

im updating my system with automatic updates but its telling me i have 1 broken package and it cant install updates without removing the broken package. so what do i do. im new to the operating system but not new to computers, so i can follow directions pretty easily.

colucix · 06-01-2008, 02:32 PM

Which system are you running on? Is it RPM-based (Red Hat, Fedora, OpenSuSE), DEB-based (Debian, Ubuntu), TGZ-based (Slackware)? You should run the proper utility to verify all the installed packages and eventually try to re-install them.

For example on a RPM based system you can verify all the installed packages using

Code:

rpm -V -a

this may require a long time, anyway.