What is 'broken'?

[tituspurdin]

I do the upgrades (don't we all?). I get back a message saying that
I have 'errors' and that I should use the 'broken filter' to find out
what they are. But I cannot find anything that accepts or identifies
the 'broken filter'. Is it a secret? My errors seem to center on
MySQL and TeX installations. But I don't think that is the point.
Thanks for any help you can offer.


Titus sends

[oboedad55]

I do the upgrades (don't we all?). I get back a message saying that
I have 'errors' and that I should use the 'broken filter' to find out
what they are. But I cannot find anything that accepts or identifies
the 'broken filter'. Is it a secret? My errors seem to center on
MySQL and TeX installations. But I don't think that is the point.
Thanks for any help you can offer.


Titus sends

Look in synaptic under "custom filters". You'll see the "broken" package thing there. Then you can uninstall what's broken.

[Bucky Ball]

Look in synaptic under "custom filters". You'll see the "broken" package thing there. Then you can uninstall what's broken.

Or have Synaptic try and fix it ...

Use 'Fix Broken Packages' in the drop-down menu there.