Re: About removing dselect's forced installs... Help

[Peter Horton <pdh@colonel-panic.com>]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 06:31:44PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> 
> I have some more info here. I've used apt-get to install my apps but now
> that I want to use dselect, if I pick any item and go to intall it
> presents me with a list of 100 items. Now looking at those items in
> /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 

This is how I do it. Go into 'dselect' and let it select the packages, but
then quit out.

dpkg -l \* | awk '/^i[^i]/ { print $2 " purge" }' | dpkg --set-selections
dpkg --yet-to-unpack | awk '{ print $1 " purge" }' | dpkg --set-selections

The second step is necessary 'cos 'dpkg -l' truncates the package names so
it can fit the output on your terminal (shame it doesn't check whether you
are outputting to a terminal before doing this :-( ).

Once there marked "purge" 'dselect' seems to ignore them :-).

Hope this helps,

	P.

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