Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:28:50AM -0700, Robert Fu wrote:
> I'm a newbie to Debian Linux. Somehow I made a mistake, and now
> whenever I run dselect, it'll try to uninstall about 200 KDE packages.
> Thus I cannot install or remove any package without risk of messing up
> the whole system. It seems to be a lot of work to manually re-select
> the 200 KDE packages in dselect. I hope there is way to reset package
> selection in dselect so that I can keep current installed packages and
> install new packages. I did some search, and cannot find a solution.
Try the patch I wrote and submitted as bug #151540. Of course you'll
have to rebuild dselect to do that ... maybe I should build a patched
version, sign it, and put it somewhere.
With current dselect, you could also try moving the cursor to each of
the "Updated packages (newer version is available)", "Up to date
installed packages", and "Available packages (not currently installed)"
headers and pressing 'G' (unhold) on each of them in turn. You might
have to repeat this a few times until things settle down.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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