Hi Clive, I tried that initially but the problem i face is i have quit out of dselect frist time and now it remembers all the selections regardless if i press Q or X or Esc... when I go to Install packages I would like to hope and see there are no packages to install remove or upgrade but instead i see hte same message as before when i made the error and its got packages to remove upgrade etc .. before i did the message if i had gone in dselect (and nothing was selected to install or upgrade or remove ) i would see nothing to install upgrade or remove when i chose the Install option. All I wana do is get dselect to drop all the selections it has remembered and rescan whats loaded in the system and just remember that so I can re-do my selection again. Thanks :) Medi
--- Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (20/12/03 19:31), Medi Esmail wrote: > > HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a > > mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the > new > > kernel package and when it came up with > dependencies i > > found some packages i had were removed etc any way > i > > made some changes and went to the main menu of > dselect > > and chose install at which point it came up with X > > number of packages were going to be removed etc > and > > installed etc... at that point i wanted to backout > and > > I chose No, so im back at my main menu. > > What I want to do now is revert all my selections > and > > not go ahead with the new install and want the > > selection to go back to normal as it was before I > > selected anything. > > I tried going into the /var/lib/dpkg directory and > > copied over status-old over the status.. that did > > remove the selection in dselect however if i > choose > > install again it still has all the packages there > to > > remove and add and upgrade as before even thou > they > > dont showup in the dselect list .. > > Is there a way i can get dselect to reread my > system > > and rebuild the list of whats installed and forget > any > > packages which might be selected to install?? > > Please any help would be highly appreciated (im a > > relativly new user and dont want to reinstall > unless > > there is no other option). > > man dselect refers to: > > Establishing the requested selections > However, if there are any unresolveded depends, > dselect will > again prompt the user with a dependency resolution > screen. To > alter a set of selections that creates unresolved > depends or > conflicts and forcing dselect to accept it, press > the 'Q' key. > This sets the selections as specified by the user, > unconditionally. > Generally, don't do this unless you've read the fine > print. > > The opposite effect, to back out any selections > change requests and > go back to the previous list of selections, is > attained by pressing > the 'X' or escape keys. By repeatedly pressing > these keys, any > possibly detrimental changes to the requested > package selections can > be backed out completely to the last established > settings. > > HTH > > Clive > > > -- > http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk > strategies for business > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== Medi Esmail Mobile: 0404085710 ICQ : 1679212 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
