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Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 22, 2007 1:51 UTC (Thu) by spotter (subscriber, #12199)
In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by mrons
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

not directly.

if you

dpkg -i some.deb

that will try to install it, but it wont configure due to missing dependencies.

and

apt-get install -f

will then fix it as it will resolve the missing dependencies and configure everything.

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