Showing posts with label Fixing broken packages that don't want to be fixed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fixing broken packages that don't want to be fixed. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Force removal of broken packages

If you try to install a package and are missing dependencies, apt-get will not let you remove it because it is an an inconsistent state.

tward $ sudo apt-get remove tinyos-2.1.1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 avr-libc-tinyos : Depends: avr-gcc-tinyos but it is not going to be installed
 avr-tinyos : Depends: avr-binutils-tinyos but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: avr-gcc-tinyos but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: avrdude-tinyos but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Apt-get -f install does not fix the problem.
A solution is to remove the package with dpkg, then do the repair.

tward $ sudo dpkg --force-depends --purge tinyos-2.1.1 

tward $ sudo apt-get -f install