Re: dselect in wheezy; Old timers question
On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 16:09 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> John W. Foster, 14.12.2013:
> > I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except
> > putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to
> > yesterday it worked well as it has for years. I did a apt-get
> > distupgrade and all went as expected and the system is running fine.
> > However after I did the upgrade from old stable to wheezy, I decided
> > that I needed to get an upgraded openjdk-7-jre installed for the game
> > systems I'm running. When I did that the dselect decided I needed a lot
> > of extra stuff to go along and I hit 'ctrl x' to abandon those changes.
> > I reloaded the selections available and went into get ONLY the jre that
> > I needed using apt-get install & the entire load of X related stuff
> > popped up. Now I have tried to clear the caches of dselect and apt but
> > they all seem stuck. Running apt-get clean & autoclean do not clear the
> > dselect picked dependencies.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to get the dependencies & suggested selections cleared
> > out.
>
> Hello, fellow dselect old-timer. :) You should have hit X, not Ctrl-X,
> Anyway, here's what 'man dselect' says:
>
> If you mistakenly establish some settings and wish to revert all the
> selections to what is currently installed on the system, press the 'C'
> key. This is somewhat similar to using the unhold command on all pack‐
> ages, but provides a more obvious panic button in cases where the user
> pressed enter by accident.
>
> (The previous paragraph was about using X to back out changes. The
> screen in which you should have done that is the context of the "pressed
> enter by accident".)
>
> I never tried this. Let us know how it works.
>
>
worked exactly as stated. Sorry I didn't even think of checking the man
pages. I've been usin dselect for decades & just 'thought' I knew what I
was doing LOL just go's to show......
Thanks
John
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