Re: dselect removed (almost) everything
On 10 Mar 1999q, Matt Garman wrote:
>
> I was using dselect, and I hit the remove unwanted software option.
> And it went through and started removing almost EVERYTHING I had
> installed -- stuff I thought should definately _not_ be flagged to be
> removed (fetchmail, emacs, lilo, lprng, tetex...).
>
> I hit CTRL-C so that it wouldn't take out too much. I did _not_ get
> dpkg-ftp (dpkg-ftp was still installed), so I went through and
> selected the files dselect removed, and when I went to install them,
> it said there were zero files to be gotten!
>
> Now I'm in the long, slow, painful process of downloading each package
> manually via ftp, and installing them by hand with dpkg.
>
> Why is my system in this state? What did I do? These packages that
> dselect started to remove, I have NEVER flagged to remove them.
>
> help.
>
This once happened to me. I'm not sure why; I assumed it was something
stupid I'd done, but since then I've NEVER allowed it to remove anything;
I've always removed unwanted packages manually, with dpkg.
Anthony
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