* mike shupp <ms44278@csun1.csun.edu> [03/15/99 17:30] wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Max wrote:
> > I just did something really bad. I somehow managed to convince
> > dselect that I want to uninstall pretty much all the packages on my
> > system. I haven't actually told it to do this yet, but the command is
> > stored somewhere in its "memory". In the select list, the following
> > appears for almost every package:
>
> How about killing the process?
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. It turns out that the
/var/lib/dpkg/status file was screwed up. I just ended up replacing
it with one of the backup status files and voila.
Max
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The hopeful depend on a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may say
Neil Peart, 1985
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