On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:56:45AM -0500, Paul King wrote: > Dselect is now trying to make design decisions on my computer against my > wishes. I thought only GatesWare did that. But I digress. > > I have installed WordPerfect Office 2000 on my laptop. dselect reports these as > brokenly installed packages but the apps work fine. The next time I use > dselect, it then wants to uninstall all of these so-called broken packages when > I try to install something else. I suspect the "brokenness" is due to the fact > that I am using Woody, and that WPO 2000 was designed back when Potato was the > current Debian system. But the application is working fine, and dselect is > uninstalling it!!! > > How do I stop it from doing this? There must be some way to over-ride these > actions. > You should be able to place it on "hold" by pressing '=' over the package when in the package selection window. But it might be constructive to tell us why exactly it's getting marked for deinstallation in case there's some underlying problem we should be aware of. dselect should give a list of packages that it's conflicting against, triggering the uninstall. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
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