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Newer page: version 39 Last edited on Friday, June 13, 2008 10:49:39 am by AlastairPorter
Older page: version 38 Last edited on Monday, February 12, 2007 1:47:19 pm by CraigBox Revert
@@ -230,4 +230,13 @@
 * To force accepting the new conffile: <tt>UCF_FORCE_CONFFNEW=yes</tt> 
 * To force accepting the old conffile: <tt>UCF_FORCE_CONFFOLD=yes</tt> 
  
 Note the extra f. 
+  
+!!! Working out why apt has made a package choice  
+Sometimes apt may decide to install or uninstall a package and you have no idea why it made this choice. To see its reasoning, add  
+  
+<verbatim>  
+-o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes  
+</verbatim>  
+  
+to the command