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Re: 400+ unwanted package removal



 --- John Stevenson <john.stevenson@objectcore.co.uk> wrote: 

> jano kupec wrote:
> >did you run dselect after this? isn't it that dselect re-resolved
> >package dependencies and set those packages that you changed to install
> >back to deinstall?

If you do:

dpkg --set-selections < file

Then you *will* have to do:

apt-get dselect-upgrade

before you then apt-get install

-- Thomas Adam

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