newbie's question: how to undo dselect
Hi,
I'm a newbie to Debian Linux. Somehow I made a
mistake, and now whenever I run dselect, it'll try to
uninstall about 200 KDE packages. Thus I cannot
install or remove any package without risk of messing
up the whole system. It seems to be a lot of work to
manually re-select the 200 KDE packages in dselect. I
hope there is way to reset package selection in
dselect so that I can keep current installed packages
and install new packages. I did some search, and
cannot find a solution.
I saw somebody submitted Bug#35639: dpkg: No undo for
operations in dselect
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/1999/debian-dpkg-199904/msg00009.html).
It seems the bug was closed without any code changes.
But it's still a problem for me in Woody.
Does anyone know how to undo dselect after mistakes
are made in previous execution of dselect? If so,
please also cc the answer to me.
I highly appreciate your help!
Robert Fu
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