Re: Help with dselect
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Medi Esmail wrote:
> HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a mistake i did using
> dselect, I was choosing the new kernel package and when it came up
> with dependencies i found some packages i had were removed etc any way
> i made some changes and went to the main menu of dselect and chose
> install at which point it came up with X number of packages were going
> to be removed etc and installed etc... at that point i wanted to
> backout and I chose No, so im back at my main menu.
> What I want to do now is revert all my selections and not go ahead
> with the new install and want the selection to go back to normal as it
> was before I selected anything.
There's no one-shot way to do this in dselect at the moment. I filed a
bug report a while back (#151540) with a patch to implement a
single-keystroke command to do this, but to my annoyance it's been
largely ignored.
In the meantime, your best bet is to move the cursor onto each of the
"Updated packages (newer version is available)", "Up to date installed
packages", and "Available packages (not currently installed)" headers in
turn and use the 'G' (that's shift-g, "unhold") command on each. You may
have to repeat this a few times.
> I tried going into the /var/lib/dpkg directory and copied over
> status-old over the status..
I'm not sure what this will have done.
> Please any help would be highly appreciated (im a relativly new user
> and dont want to reinstall unless there is no other option).
You should definitely not need to reinstall.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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