I made a big mistake: dependency hell!

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:17, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I always use gdebi to install things that I get from sources other than
>>>> the repositories, such as virtualbox. I don't use it often but it seems
>>>> to make a decent attempt at resolving dependencies and installing the
>>>> extra packages.
>>>
>>> Thank you for the insight Dave but please do not hijack this thread to
>>> discuss best practices. I need this thread to remain coherent so that
>>> I might resolve this critical issue. Thanks.
>>
>> What a ridiculous reply! He's suggesting a preventive measure for the
>> future so he's not hijacking anything!
>
> It is not a preventative measure as I was deliberately fooling with
> unsupported packages from a different distro version. There were no
> repos to query, I was mixing and matching packages, I could do that
> with any tool. Furthermore, I do not need a preventative measure, I
> need to fix this install.

Whether you like it or not, it's a preventive measure and it's kind of
the poster to have posted it. Attacking him for giving you advice for
the future is obnoxious.