Re: resetting dselect

[Beavis <beavis@bidz.com>]

ok, well lets just say this:

what if the packages are in the upacked (not set up); install (was: install)
state.
and i want the dselect to just ignore the face that they are not set up>

the reason why is that i can't install anything without gettting ride of
this packages first.

is there an easier way around this?


> beavis@bidz.com (Beavis) wrote:
> >hello, i installed a few .deb manually meaning
> >
> >dpkg -i <filename>
> >
> >but dselect thinks that are are still unconfigured, which is not true!!!!
>
> They aren't just in obsolete/local? If they are, you can safely ignore
> them. If dselect thinks they're unconfigured then they probably are
> (dselect gets its information from the dpkg database, and installing via
> dselect is really not much different from 'dpkg -i'); does 'dpkg
> --configure -a' help?
>
> >how do u reset the deselect so that it doesn't pick up the packages as
> >existing in the system
>
> Er, if a package has been installed with dpkg than you can't tell
> dselect it doesn't exist without doing serious violence to your
> packaging system. I don't recommend that at all.
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
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