Re: Stop dselect installing packages
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:58:30PM +0000, Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> Is their a way to say to dselect "just forget about all the packages you
> currently have marked for install" from the command line so next time
> you run it it only has a list of allready installed packages and ones
> you can install. Its just that their are thousands of packages in there
> and its really easy (not to say time consumingi) to miss some when
> scrolling through the whole lot looking for marked packages.
You could move the cursor down to the line saying "Available packages
(not currently installed)" and press '_'. That will select to purge all
packages which aren't yet installed.
There are also keys like 'D', 'R', and 'X' which can be very useful for
cancelling mistakes in dselect. See dselect's online keystroke help.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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