Re: aptitude question



On 04/29/2008 08:24 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
why doesn't aptitude offer a check option like apt-get offers?




It sort of does. You could do this:

aptitude search "~b"

That will search for broken packages. Install "aptitude-doc-en" and see this file for more information:

/usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s03.html


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