debian dependecy hell

[Andrew Malcolmson]

I suggest using the ncurses aptitude instead of the command line apt-get
for package management.  Aptitude is great for visualizing dependency
relationships and unlike apt-get it keeps track of which packages are
have been selected for installation vs. which are installed to satisfy a
dependency.  

Actually there are lots of reasons to use it instead of apt-get or
dselect but no need to get into details: once you start you'll never go
back.

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Andrew Malcolmson

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