[lug] Ubuntu fix broken package

[Bear Giles]

What's the actual command and error messages?

What's the package?

What's your distro version? Is it up to date?

Very occasionally I've needed to download the source and rebuild the
package locally but it's been because I was doing local development that
required an incompatible version of a standard library. It's been very rare
though.

Bear

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:58 PM D. Stimits <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:

> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been monitoring this list for over 20  years and recognize many
> > of the names of people that I met when I went to the meetings in Boulder.
> >
> > I have a problem that I cannot fix, broken package  .The recommended fix
> > was,  sudo apt-get -f install .
> >
> > I have tried a lot of different apt-gets and alt F2 s and I am
> > wondering  if I am not doing it correctly, such, as should the app open
> > or closed.
> >
> > When I had a similar problem in the past it just worked with the
> > recommended apt-get . Of course it was a long time ago because Linux
> > works so well.
> >
> > Your advice would be appreciated.
> >
> > Bob
> You might try this:
> sudo apt update
> sudo apt --fix-broken install
>
> s
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