Re: DSelect

[patrick q <rpmq@yahoo.com>]

--- Kevin Stokes <kevin@pieskysoft.com> wrote:
>   I've got a newbie problem with DSelect.   When I choose 'Select'
> browse
> the packages, there are about 100 things selected to be installed
> that are
> not currently installed, and I don't want.   When I try to press the
> '-' key
> to not select them, many of them give me crap about dependencies.  It
> would
> take me hours to go through them all.   My number one priority is to
> not
> screw up my system.   How can I clear the whole list to the machine's
> current install state so I can select only the one tiny package I
> want?
> 
>   In the end I used apt-get to get what I wanted.   But I won't be
> able to
> use DSelect until I figure this out.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Kevin Stokes
> Pie in the Sky Software
> www.pieskysoft.com
> 

If you are serious when you say "My number one priority is to not screw
up my system", then you should do yourself a huge favour and track
stable.

Patrick.


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