John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 > > packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! > Not so horrible, haven't we all done that? > > Have you tried to return to the "Select" menu and toggle all those > files to install (+) rather than remove (-). Then try "Install" > again. It worked for me when I did the same thing ;-)
Yes, I did that. However, when I select "Install", I still get the same thing: ,----[ This is what I see when selecting Install ] | The following packages will be REMOVED: | netscape-base-4 libmd5-perl libcurses-perl debhelper nosql | libcompress-zlib-perl libtime-hires-perl libdelimmatch-perl perl debmake | libhtml-parser-perl sysutils libterm-readkey-perl procmail-lib dupload | navigator-smotif-45 netscape-base-45 dftp cvs-buildpackage perl-suid | libio-stringy-perl devscripts pkg-order signify liblockdev0-perl dpkg-dev | quake2 netscape-java-45 perlmenu navigator-base-45 dpkg-ftp libnet-perl | libmime-base64-perl dpkg-repack xaw-wrappers debsums alias alien | 14 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 38 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | 1 packages not fully installed or removed. | Need to get 4745kB/11.3MB of archives. After unpacking 25.6MB will be freed. | Do you want to continue? [Y/n] `---- I now choose "n", and then return into "Select" and search for the above package names: ,----[ Cut an paste stuff from Dselect package listing ] | *** Opt contrib/ netscape-bas 4.61-15.1 5 Popular World-Wide-Web br | *** Opt interpre libmd5-perl 1.7-1 1.7-1 MD5 Message Digest for Pe | [... and so on for all of the above packages ...] `---- Well, you get the idea: all packages show with "installed; install (was: install)" flags, but nevertheless are rigged for *removal* when I chose "Install" command. Any ideas, anyone? I'm pretty much at the end of my rope. I tried looking in various /var directories, hoping to find some cache file for dselect or apt, but alas... -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
