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Guy Park
Guy Park

Reputation: 1017

apt-get install broken and need to undo install

Accidentally installed something, which broke during the install, which is good since I got the wrong package.

Unfortunately it's broken apt-get like others have experienced. I've seen plenty of ways to continue the broken install, but in my case I want to not continue the install and just remove the offending install.

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 307

Answers (1)

Guy Park
Guy Park

Reputation: 1017

Seems you can achieve this with the command

$ apt-get remove --fix-broken <<PACKAGENAME>>

Where <<PACKAGENAME>> was the package that caused the breakage. The key here was to remove, while all the solutions to continue with the install had install.

The above picked up that I was half-way through an install, and so removing it (with this flag) removed it like a charm. If you don't have the flag, it won't identify it as being installed, which is what stumped me previously.

Upvotes: 0

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