"Satelle, StevenX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 29/04/2002 (12:37) : > Ok I'll give you an example (this happened over the weekend). I'm installing > a package using dselect. It comes up with a dependency list, I click ok > then go to install. I then realise that the deps I clicked ok to are > basically asking to uninstall the whole system. Obviously this is a mistake > so I click on no to the prompt, exit dselect, relaunch and it still wants to > remove all the packages. The best I can manage is to close dselect, re-run > apt-get update and relaunch. Then If I choose install it doesn't install > anything which is fine. But if I go into the package listing and then press > enter it gives me the same original depency listing where it wants to remove > all the packages. That is what I am looking for, how to clear dselects > memory
You do that by installing this package it needs. What dselect is telling you is that if you don't want this package then I have to remove all the other packages. But before you du press the Update in dselect. Preben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]