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.