Re: Help with dselect
Hi Clive,
I tried that initially but the problem i face is i
have quit out of dselect frist time and now it
remembers all the selections regardless if i press Q
or X or Esc... when I go to Install packages I would
like to hope and see there are no packages to install
remove or upgrade but instead i see hte same message
as before when i made the error and its got packages
to remove upgrade etc .. before i did the message if
i had gone in dselect (and nothing was selected to
install or upgrade or remove ) i would see nothing to
install upgrade or remove when i chose the Install
option. All I wana do is get dselect to drop all the
selections it has remembered and rescan whats loaded
in the system and just remember that so I can re-do my
selection again.
Thanks :)
Medi
--- Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote: >
On (20/12/03 19:31), Medi Esmail wrote:
> > HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a
> > mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the
> new
> > kernel package and when it came up with
> dependencies i
> > found some packages i had were removed etc any way
> i
> > made some changes and went to the main menu of
> dselect
> > and chose install at which point it came up with X
> > number of packages were going to be removed etc
> and
> > installed etc... at that point i wanted to backout
> and
> > I chose No, so im back at my main menu.
> > What I want to do now is revert all my selections
> and
> > not go ahead with the new install and want the
> > selection to go back to normal as it was before I
> > selected anything.
> > I tried going into the /var/lib/dpkg directory and
> > copied over status-old over the status.. that did
> > remove the selection in dselect however if i
> choose
> > install again it still has all the packages there
> to
> > remove and add and upgrade as before even thou
> they
> > dont showup in the dselect list ..
> > Is there a way i can get dselect to reread my
> system
> > and rebuild the list of whats installed and forget
> any
> > packages which might be selected to install??
> > Please any help would be highly appreciated (im a
> > relativly new user and dont want to reinstall
> unless
> > there is no other option).
>
> man dselect refers to:
>
> Establishing the requested selections
> However, if there are any unresolveded depends,
> dselect will
> again prompt the user with a dependency resolution
> screen. To
> alter a set of selections that creates unresolved
> depends or
> conflicts and forcing dselect to accept it, press
> the 'Q' key.
> This sets the selections as specified by the user,
> unconditionally.
> Generally, don't do this unless you've read the fine
> print.
>
> The opposite effect, to back out any selections
> change requests and
> go back to the previous list of selections, is
> attained by pressing
> the 'X' or escape keys. By repeatedly pressing
> these keys, any
> possibly detrimental changes to the requested
> package selections can
> be backed out completely to the last established
> settings.
>
> HTH
>
> Clive
>
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