Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect
Thanks you all for your help!
One of my friends helped me with a workaround, which
is to use apt-get to install the packages I want. I'll
wait for Colin's patch for dselect, and clean up the
mess later. It seems I should mostly use apt-get from
now on.
Thanks a lot,
Robert Fu
--- Ben Kal <benkal@euronet.nl> wrote:
> On 4 Jun 2003 Robert Fu <qrobertfu@yahoo.com> 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.
>
> I ran into the same problem last year.
>
> > 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.
>
> I could not either.
>
> > I saw somebody submitted Bug#35639: dpkg: No undo
> for operations in
> > dselect
> >
>
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/1999/debian-dpkg-199904/msg00009.html).
> > It seems the bug was closed without any code
> changes.
>
> Probably what we both dream of, a command to force
> the package management
> system to clean up a dependencies mess while
> retaining most if not all of
> the packages we need, is just too tall an order.
>
> > Does anyone know how to undo dselect after
> mistakes are made in previous
> > execution of dselect?
>
> Unfortunately, I do not. In the end, what I did was
> back up all user data,
> configuration files, downloaded programs and the
> like, reinstalled Linux
> from scratch, restored the backed up data, and never
> used dselect again
> as anything else than a tool to VIEW information on
> packages.
>
> The commands I use the most for package management
> are apt-get, apt-cache,
> dpkg and dpkg-deb. The number of flags and options
> you have to remember is
> a bit annoying, but you have more control over what
> happens than with
> dselect.
>
> But I would be still be grateful if some wizard were
> to reveal that there
> IS a powerful 'packages clean up' command after all.
>
> Ben
>
> --
>
> B.F.M. Kal
> Anjelierstraat 1, 2014 TC Haarlem, Netherlands
> tel +31 23 5324909, benkal@euronet.nl
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