Is "pacman -T" like "apt-get install -f" ?

Question

Is "pacman -T" like "apt-get install -f" in Debian?
Last edited by Mr. Alex (2010-12-31 11:06:07)

Answer 1

Mr. Alex wrote:
> What does that do?
From man page:
-f, --fix-broken
Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. This option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages to permit APT to deduce a likely solution. Any Package that are specified must completely correct the problem. The option is sometimes necessary when running APT for the first time; APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system. It is possible that a system's dependency structure can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention (which usually means using dselect(8) or dpkg --remove to eliminate some of the offending packages). Use of this option together with -m may produce an error in some situations. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Fix-Broken.
pacman does not let you screw up dependencies unless you specify the "-d" flag...  but:
allan@mugen ~
> pacman -Rd python-feedparser
Remove (1): python-feedparser-4.1-6
Total Removed Size: 0.26 MB
Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
(1/1) removing python-feedparser [######################] 100%
allan@mugen ~
> testdb
missing dependency for gpodder : python-feedparser