Resetting dpkg/dselect?
Is there a way to reset what dpkg/dselect things are available?
I am running into the confusion of having several a.out/0.93R6 packages
appear in dselect, even though the packages have been replaced, aren't
installed, aren't available on my machine in any form, and don't exist
in any Package file.
A perfect example of this is libc. As far as I can tell, the only
mention in the Package files for libc is that libc4 conflicts with and
provides it. Yet it continues to be displayed in dselect.
More confusing is the ncurses packages. I have ncurses-base,
ncurses-bin, ncurses-developer, ncurses-runtime, ncurses-term,ncurses3.0
, ncurses3.0-dev and ncurses3.0-pic. Two are old a.out files, and it
isn't obvious which ones I need. To make it worse, ncurses-runtime is
one I DON'T wnat, but many of the others depend on ncurses-runtime
(which is provided by the new ncurses-base).
Since I don't have many of these old packages on my system in anyform
anymore, except in the eyes of dselect, is there a way to make dselect
purge what it "knows", and relearn what I have available?
--
Buddha Buck phaedrus@dreamscape.com
"She was infatuated with their male prostitutes, whose members were
like those of donkeys and whose seed came in floods like that of
stallions." -- Ezekiel 23:20
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