Re: Where does dselect store it's selections?
On 20-Jan-2002 Stan Brown wrote:
> I had high hopes of getting my wife's new woody machine deployed this
> weekend, but I seem to have sliped inot a descending death spiral on that
> machine :-(
>
> Presently both printing and email are horibly broken on it.
>
> So I fired up dselect, amde the mistake of telling it to update, and tried
> to seect cups, instead of lprng.
>
> Unfortuantely, I go inot a depedncy loop, that I could not figure out how
> to resolve, as I tried to exit the selection step., so In desperation, I
> control C's out of it.
>
> Seems to me, that I probably should go back to the set of working
> selections I had before firing it up, and I reacll that it keeps a backup
> file f the selections before it was fired up, but i can't remeber where
> this lives.
>
> Help please! Where is this abckup file, and does my plan make sense?
>
dpkg --get-selections > output
<edit file by hand>
dpkg --set-selections < output
Not particularly pretty but it will work.
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