Re: Dselect question
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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] André Bell wrote:
> Any way to get dselect to only show me the packages I have selected for
> installation, but not yet installed?
>
> I've scrole through and think I may have selected a couple of wrong
> packages and their dependent files at a conflict to my existing system.
> I'd hate to scroll through the entire list to find out which have astrixes
> and which do not. If displaying only the files I want installed is not an
> option how do i clear the entire list of selected packages without
> scrolling through one by one to unselect them?
i don't know of a way to get dselect to show only the non-installed
packages selected for install. But, this command will show them to you:
grep "Status: install ok not-installed" -B1 /var/lib/dpkg/status
To clear the entire list of selected packages, go to the line "---
Available packages (not currently installed) ---" and press '_'. This will
deselect all not-currently-installed packages. You can do something
similar to the "--- Up to date installed packages ---" line to make sure
none will be removed.
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