Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?
Arcady Genkin wrote:
> I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40
> packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror!
>
Not so horrible, haven't we all done that?
Have you tried to return to the "Select" menu and toggle all those files to install
(+) rather than remove (-). Then try "Install" again. It worked for me when I did the
same thing ;-)
John
>
> I figure that this is saved in some file, for any time I try to
> install a package with dselect now, it wants to remove the 40 packages
> along with installing the new ones. This happens when I choose
> "install".
>
> ,----[ This is what I see: ]
> | The following packages will be REMOVED:
> | netscape-base-4 libmd5-perl libcurses-perl debhelper nosql
> | libcompress-zlib-perl libtime-hires-perl libdelimmatch-perl perl
> | debmake libhtml-parser-perl sysutils libterm-readkey-perl
> | procmail-lib dupload navigator-smotif-45 netscape-base-45
> | perl-5.004-doc xkeycaps dftp cvs-buildpackage perl-suid
> | libio-stringy-perl devscripts pkg-order signify liblockdev0-perl
> | dpkg-dev quake2 netscape-java-45 perlmenu navigator-base-45 dpkg-ftp
> | libnet-perl libmime-base64-perl dpkg-repack xaw-wrappers debsums
> | alias alien
> | 14 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 40 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> | 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
> | Need to get 4745kB/11.3MB of archives. After unpacking 30.3MB will be freed.
> `----
>
> Is there any way I could tell dselect that thank you, I want my system
> left just the way it is right now. I want to clear that list of
> packages lined up for removal.
>
> Thanks for any input!
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> Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com
> "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who
> loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
>
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