Craig Sampson wrote: > At this point, what I really need to do is to somehow rebuild > the dselect database so that it can start afresh (if you like) > with only those packages that are actually installed.
perl -i.bak -pe 'if (/^Status: [^\s]+ ([^\s]+) ([^\s]+)/) { $_="Status: ".($2
eq "installed" ? "install" : "purge")." $1 $2\n"}' /var/lib/dpkg/status
Not particulary tested, but it keeps a status.bak if it should go
horribly wrong.
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see shy jo
