Quick Answer: How Do I Fix Broken Packages in Linux?

How do I fix held broken packages?

These are some fast and easy ways to fix the you have held broken packages error.

1. Open your sources. …
2. Select the Fix Broken Packages option in Synaptic package manager. …
3. If you get this error message: Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution) …
4. Manually remove a broken package.

How do you remove a broken package?

Here are the steps.

1. Find your package in /var/lib/dpkg/info , for example using: ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep <package>
2. Move the package folder to another location, like suggested in the blog post I mentioned before. …
3. Run the following command: sudo dpkg –remove –force-remove-reinstreq <package>

25 янв. 2018 г.