Good program to easily remove broken program packages

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09 Oct 2009, 11:53 pm

For most linux distros is there a good program to easily remove broken program packages. Generally speaking of GNOME, KDE and XFCE.



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10 Oct 2009, 1:01 am

The Debian family has the best package manager. APT includes tools for cleaning up broken packages and orphaned dependencies.


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10 Oct 2009, 3:46 am

Reply if you need more than this.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto


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