Comment 1 for bug 6512

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:56:42AM -0000, Joseph Smidt wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/6512
>
> Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
> Severity: Normal
> Priority: (none set)
> Status: New

Thanks for your bugreport.

> Description:
> Sometimes upgrading fails with synaptic and you have you go to the
> terminal and type apt-get -f upgrade. For people who aren't terminal
> literate this is a problem. It would be nice if synaptic could manage
> this.

Could you please explain in what situations you have to do this?

Usually it should be fine to click on "Edit/Fix broken packages" if
you have broken packages on your system. Sometimes when a packages
tries to override a package or if a postinst script fails it's often
enough to remove/upgrade the package in question (and that usually
happens during development only).

I'm happy to investigate what synaptic can do to fix this
automatically if I get a good example where it fails.

Thanks,
 Michael

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