Re: dselect deinstalled all software!!!

2000-04-11 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Mark, On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > When I start the machine the letters LI come on the > screen and then nothing happens. > In the meantime, I'm trying to advise him from afar. I am thinking he > needs to get a rescue disk from somewhere, That's definitely the right way t

Re: dselect deinstalled all software!!!

2000-04-11 Thread Erik Ryberg
Mark Phillips wrote: > > Hi, > > A friend of mine has emailed me in panic, saying that dselect has just > deinstalled all the software on his debian laptop. He is currently > travelling in the US (he and I are from Australia) and he is in a bit > of a panic. I am trying to acertain precisely wh

Re: dselect deinstalled all software!!!

2000-04-11 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks for the reply! > He upgraded something which required a different version of libc > than what everything in the system depends upon. As a result it > deselected that libc and pretty much everything else that depended > upon it. I am guessing then that what he needs to do is to create