on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:23:31PM +0200, Felix E. Klee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I accidentally hit the wrong keys in dselect (really one of the most > user-hostile and dangerous programs that I know) and now half of my > system is marked for uninstallation. Because I did not notice it at first > I immediately hit Install, didn't read the information about which > pacakges will be removed, but pressed ctrl-c quickly after seeing that > the wrong packages were beeing removed. Now, I have two questions: > > 1. Where do I find a logfile which contains the last actions undertaken by > dselect (actually dpkg)?
No activity log of a session. Prior session state is saved unver
/var/backups/dpkg.status.[0-9].gz
> 2. I want to turn off all removal reuquests in the package list. How can
> this be accomplished (shift-r doesn't work anymore)?
Bail from dselect and do this manually through dpkg, values are 'hold',
'install', 'remove', and 'purge':
$ dpkg --get-selections > file
$ vi file # make your changes here
$ dpkg --set-selections < file
Cheers.
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