Re: Stupid dselect question
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 05:44:00PM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
> I have been pouring over this in the manuals, and asked for help in the
> IRC channel. I went into "tasksel -q" and selected a bunch of stuff. Now
> I have 188 megs of updates to download over "dselect install". However, I
> cant afford the bandwidth, and decided to cancel this. How do I unselect
> packages? Is there a quick and easy way via command line so I dont have
> to use dselect directly? It selected like 366 packages, and I really dont
> want to download all these right now. Isnt there a way to purge all
> selections in an easy, quick way?
You can use the normal selection commands (+, -, _, =, etc.) on
headings, so for instance if you hit '_' on the line reading "Available
packages (not currently installed)", everything that's not currently
installed will be marked to purge. That's probably not exactly what you
need, but you can get to what you want using that.
The unhold (':' or 'G') command may be useful. It resets a package's
selection to the currently installed state, or when used on a section
heading resets the selections on that entire section to the currently
installed state.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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