Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?
John Carline <jtc@stic.net> writes:
> > 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 ;-)
Yes, I did that. However, when I select "Install", I still get the
same thing:
,----[ This is what I see when selecting Install ]
| 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 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, 38 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
| Need to get 4745kB/11.3MB of archives. After unpacking 25.6MB will be freed.
| Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
`----
I now choose "n", and then return into "Select" and search for the
above package names:
,----[ Cut an paste stuff from Dselect package listing ]
| *** Opt contrib/ netscape-bas 4.61-15.1 5 Popular World-Wide-Web br
| *** Opt interpre libmd5-perl 1.7-1 1.7-1 MD5 Message Digest for Pe
| [... and so on for all of the above packages ...]
`----
Well, you get the idea: all packages show with
"installed; install (was: install)" flags, but nevertheless are rigged
for *removal* when I chose "Install" command.
Any ideas, anyone? I'm pretty much at the end of my rope. I tried
looking in various /var directories, hoping to find some cache file
for dselect or apt, but alas...
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