Re: Accidently uninstalled KDE
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 07:25:19PM +0200, Christophe Courtois wrote:
> I know this problem :-) I suppose this is KDE3.
> The second time, I was fed up with this dependency problem, and each time
> I use dselect, I make a backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status to make a rollback
> if I forget to type Ctrl-X when dselect suggests to get rid of half of
> the system (dselect is not very good for a mix of woody, sarge and
> sid...)
>
> cp /var/lib/dpkg/status /mnt/bak/sys/status.`date +%F-%X`
Wow! Sure looks like a lot of work to manage dependencies. Have you
tried aptitude? I have been using it for about a year. The curses-based
frontend is quite user friendly, and you can actually preview the
changes before they go into effect.
-Andy
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