Timeline for Let's stop using "How do I resolve unmet dependencies?" for dpkg questions (and probably for most apt questions)
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://askubuntu.com/ with https://askubuntu.com/
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| Oct 25, 2014 at 19:42 | comment | added | retrixe | @Braiam Maybe you're right. | |
| Oct 25, 2014 at 19:36 | comment | added | Braiam | @IAnsari if that was the magic that fixed all problems, people wouldn't be asking questions, you know? That fix it if people did normal things, but people keeps doing abnormal things which leads to these situations. Also, the message says "Try using -f" not "-f will fix it". | |
| Oct 25, 2014 at 19:14 | comment | added | retrixe |
sudo apt-get -f install is what APT says and yet people ask this.
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| Oct 23, 2014 at 16:09 | comment | added | Braiam | @Seth if you want to push it, you can use this to explain the issue. Not as duplicated target, since it doesn't solve anything. | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 1:20 | comment | added | Seth Mod | It's kind of a grey line (I see your point, I'm not entirely convinced myself)... Either way though, we should get our own local copy, even if you just copy+paste it (with attribution ofc). | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 1:13 | comment | added | Braiam | @Seth err... isn't that question more of a guidance about "what information we need to help you" not "this will solve your problem", so, you don't need a duplicated for that. Like this one | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 1:03 | comment | added | Seth Mod | I can't close questions as a duplicate of that ;) | |
| Oct 22, 2014 at 0:53 | comment | added | Braiam | @Seth umm? | |
| Oct 21, 2014 at 19:19 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Basically all I was suggesting was that you write up a "How do I troubleshoot dependency issues" post so that people who take the time to ask proper questions have proper resources and so we have better methods to deal with questions like this one. | |
| Oct 19, 2014 at 1:33 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/AskUbuntu/status/523648127480639488 | ||
| Oct 17, 2014 at 23:43 | comment | added | Braiam |
@Seth that's a bit of a issue itself, there's the basic which I pointed in my question, and even so in some cases it falls short, for example, when you use third party restricted (non open source) software which you don't have public information about dependencies, in such cases is necessary apt-cache depends package, for example.
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| Oct 17, 2014 at 17:57 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Yes, I realize there are too many scenarios to provide a fix for them all, but I thought a basic debugging question might give them enough understanding to fix some of the more basic ones themselves. Similar to Wild Man's wireless issues question. | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 17:21 | comment | added | Braiam | @Seth I will presume that you haven't read this answer, tl;dr: isn't possible to write in a single question all the possible solutions. There's this through | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 17:06 | comment | added | Seth Mod | I am woefully under experienced in dependency issues (I've only ever had 3 and they were all none issues), but wouldn't it be possible to create a Q/A that describes how to debut these problems and possibly fix some simple ones? Just thinking out loud.. There are probably too many possibilities for that to be reasonable. | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 16:44 | comment | added | Braiam | @Seth they are in the tag wiki, I think. | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 16:42 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Do you have a link to said informative question? | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 16:19 | history | edited | terdon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Toned down the, well, tone.
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| Oct 17, 2014 at 16:03 | history | edited | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 4 characters in body
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| Oct 17, 2014 at 15:47 | history | asked | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |