• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
    113·
    1 year ago

    Sorry. 31-year Linux user, here.

    ‘Broken’ packages? Never seen it. I can’t even understand what you may be describing.

    I strongly suspect this is one of those “stop hitting yourself” moments, but with some explanation I’d like to temper that conclusion. I admit I’m playing the odds: if the package system is messed up, likely you did a “hold my beer” stunt.

    • olutukko@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      it is quite literally a link to howtogeek article about how to fix broken packages.

      • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
        4·
        1 year ago

        Yes, but if it’s a broken package it’s usually something wrong in the packaging done by the distribution or the user did something they shouldn’t be doing. I have never seen a package break without me doing something to break it.

          • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
            11·
            1 year ago

            Again, that’s a packaging issue, as the maintainer did not rebuild yum/dnf for against the new python. Aside from rebuilding those packages manually, the user can’t fix that either.