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| Newer page: | version 39 | Last edited on Friday, June 13, 2008 10:49:39 am | by AlastairPorter | Revert |
| Older page: | version 38 | Last edited on Monday, February 12, 2007 1:47:19 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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* 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
