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How do I locate and remove Broken Packages that I have installed?

rated 0 times [ 6] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 82019 / 2 Years ago, fri, october 7, 2022, 5:28:20

I was browsing some questions here to find a solution to locating and removing broken packages. Being a relative novice I installed some PPAs designed for 11.10 on my 12.04 LTS machine. In terminal it suggested I try apt-get -f install which brought me to this question:

What exactly does sudo apt-get -f install do?

A big lesson learned for me, if anyone can help

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answered 2 Years ago igeonlothe · Accepted Answer

Synaptic Package Manager (available in the Software Center) is a graphical tool for managing packages, and among many features it allows you to filter packages by their state. In few clicks, by selecting the desired category on the left panel, you will be presented with the list of packages that require fixing.