On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:24:25PM -0600, Tim Wilson wrote:
> I've been 'apt-get installing' some packages lately and it seems I've
> gotten a really broken xemacs package here. The system keeps wanting to
> install xemacs21, xemacs21-bin, xemacs21-mule, xemacs21-support, but the
> install script fails. I can't uninstall them because dpkg and apt both
> report the packages are screwed up and I need to install them first. You
> can see the loop here. :-)
> 
> Any suggestions?

1) apt-get -f install

2) dpkg --force-help

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