Re: resetting dselect
beavis@bidz.com (Beavis) wrote:
>hello, i installed a few .deb manually meaning
>
>dpkg -i <filename>
>
>but dselect thinks that are are still unconfigured, which is not true!!!!
They aren't just in obsolete/local? If they are, you can safely ignore
them. If dselect thinks they're unconfigured then they probably are
(dselect gets its information from the dpkg database, and installing via
dselect is really not much different from 'dpkg -i'); does 'dpkg
--configure -a' help?
>how do u reset the deselect so that it doesn't pick up the packages as
>existing in the system
Er, if a package has been installed with dpkg than you can't tell
dselect it doesn't exist without doing serious violence to your
packaging system. I don't recommend that at all.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
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