On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 02:32:12PM +0100, Satelle, StevenX wrote: > Yes but if you've made a mistake how do you say "no that's not what I meant" > after you've already said yes When you select files to install, I think the state is stored in /var/lib/dpkg/status. The prior state before you made your selections is /var/lib/dpkg/status-old. If you: mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/my_screw_up cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status dselect You should be back to where you started. Now I don't profess to be a dpkg/dselect expert, so you may want to check this out with the package maintainer before you try it. Or maybe someone else on the list can comment on whether this will get you what you want. I would also want to backup my system before mucking around with these files. Jerome > > -----Original Message----- > From: Preben Randhol [mailto:randhol@pvv.org] > Sent: 29 April 2002 11:49 > To: Satelle, StevenX > Cc: Debian User List (E-mail) > Subject: Re: apt-cache again! > > "Satelle, StevenX" <stevenx.satelle@intel.com> wrote on 29/04/2002 (12:37) : > > Ok I'll give you an example (this happened over the weekend). I'm > installing > > a package using dselect. It comes up with a dependency list, I click ok > > then go to install. I then realise that the deps I clicked ok to are > > basically asking to uninstall the whole system. Obviously this is a > mistake > > so I click on no to the prompt, exit dselect, relaunch and it still wants > to > > remove all the packages. The best I can manage is to close dselect, re-run > > apt-get update and relaunch. Then If I choose install it doesn't install > > anything which is fine. But if I go into the package listing and then > press > > enter it gives me the same original depency listing where it wants to > remove > > all the packages. That is what I am looking for, how to clear dselects > > memory > > You do that by installing this package it needs. What dselect is telling > you is that if you don't want this package then I have to remove all the > other packages. > > But before you du press the Update in dselect. > > Preben > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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