on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:51:44PM -0500, paul j botelho (paul.j.botelho@Dartmouth.EDU) wrote: > I tried using dselect to uninstall some packages. Unfortunately I did > not notice the various other packages that depended on it. Now dselect > wants to uninstall all these packages. Luckily I chose "no" to this > uninstallation. > > My question is: > > Is there a way to tell dselect to go back to its state before I > started selecting things to be uninstalled? Check under /var/lib/dpkg. You'll find the files "status" and "status-old". I believe status-old is the state of things one immediate version prior. I also believe there was an earlier system in which several prior states where kept. I have to admit I understand this poorly. Better, if you want to preserve a given state, to run: $ dpkg --get-selections > dpkg-selections ...possibly versioning the selections file. You can then restore from this with: $ dpkg --set-selections < dpkg-selections Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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