On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:22:22AM -0500, John Reinke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just tried installing a .deb from an old CD, and I used apt-cdrom. > Somehow, it must have decided to remove a lot of my applications the next > time I ran dselect. I just hit enter and when I looked back, I found out > that I had just removed a large percentage of my applications!!! > > Is there a way to return to the previous state in dselect, so I can > re-install these applications? I can't find a way to do this, but it seems > to remember things like that, and I sure don't want to have to select and > configure over a hundred packages again. > > Please reply, since I'm not currently subscribed.
Under /var/lib/dpkg are a bunch of files matching 'status*'. You should be able to reconstruct a list of packages from this using awk or perl. There may be a tool which explicitly does this. See also man pages for dpkg especially --get-selections and --set-selections. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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