Re: HELP - Screwed Up Package Listings

[Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>]

If you have only just done this, and not played with dselect since,
then a
	cp /var/lib/dpkg/status{.old,}

command will set things right.  It would be a good idea to look at the
status.old file first (more, less, your favorite text editor), just to
make sure it has what you want.

If you have been in and out of dselect, making changes each time, then
it may be possible to revert to one of the archive copies of the status
file (status.0, status.1.gz, etc.), although these may not reflect the
state of your system if you have added or removed packages since they
were created.  If which case you can manually add or delete the
appropriate entries by cut'n'paste and editing the status field to
reflect the state those packages are in.

Hope that helps,

	Bruce

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Chris Hoover wrote:

> HELP - I've royally screwed up my dselect package listing.  I was working in
> dselect to get rid of packages that I never use on my server (games, xemacs,
> etc) and had a finger slip that removed a required package and exited to the
> menu.  Now almost every package is set to remove.  How can I get the packages
> list rebuilt?
> 
> If this has to be done manually, is there a way to force apt/dselect to
> downgrade to slink (the slink cd is in the cd changer on the machine and the
> machine is currently running potato)?