A systems administrator on a Debian-based server discovers that the package management system is in a broken state after a software installation was abruptly terminated. When attempting to install new packages using apt, the system reports errors related to unmet dependencies. Which of the following commands should the administrator run to attempt to correct the broken dependencies and fix the package cache?
The correct command is sudo apt --fix-broken install. This option for the apt command is specifically designed to find and fix broken package dependencies on the system. It works by identifying missing dependencies and installing them, or by removing packages that are causing irreparable dependency conflicts.
sudo apt-get autoremove is incorrect because it is used to remove packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are now no longer needed. It does not fix broken installations.
sudo apt-get update is also incorrect. This command only synchronizes the local package index files with the remote repositories; it does not install, upgrade, or fix any packages.
sudo dpkg --configure -a is a plausible but incorrect choice in this primary step. This command configures all unpacked but unconfigured packages. While it can resolve some issues, apt --fix-broken install is the higher-level and more direct command for resolving dependency issues.
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