On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Johann Spies wrote: > > > Please excuse me if this has been answered before. > > > > I received my Debian 1.3.1 CD, borrowed a cdrom-drive and installed 1.3.1. > > Dselect refuses to remove "modules" and "base" and as a result shows > > "modutils 2.1.35-5" as broken and "base 1.1.0-13" as obsolete. > > > > How can I solve this problem? > > Whatever you do, DO NOT PURGE BASE!! Then you will have a real problem. > > Even if dselect says it is obsolete, it still owns vital parts of your > system (try "dpkg -L base" and see for yourself.) So, DO NOT PURGE BASE!! > > You could: > - ignore what dselect indicates. > - delve into the dpkg database and remove all references to base. IIRC > this was described lately. > - wait for the maintainer of the package to issue a final base.deb, > consisting of merely install scripts that will perform the abovementioned > cleaning.
The way to remove base is to cd into /var/lib/dpkg/info and open up base.list in your favorite text editor. You should then remove all references to devices. i.e delete all /dev/ files. You should then be able to remove base safely. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
