Brian Masinick
Hi Brian,
Thanks for that exposition on getting an iso working.
With that in hand, people who are having a dependency issue (with Linux <g>), can use the apt, apt-get and dpkg tools to identify packages to remove, install, upgrade, or reinstall (which is more “forceful” from plain install), or try dpkg itself to fix things that apt doesn’t seem able to.
And as Xunzi_23 pointed out, apt’s database of packages can be removed to force its fresh recreation, hopefully curing some issues.
Yes, all of that is correct. I will say that with apt-get (rather than apt front end) I can do a fairly large percentage of what I need to do.
I don’t resort to dpkg unless I have to do so. Also, though a low level tool, dpkg is not terribly difficult to use either. When I can’t remember an option, the help or man page quickly provide the options. For example, I just looked: dpkg -i installs packages, dpkg -r removes packages, so there are two simple options.
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Brian Masinick
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