Re: help! dselect wants to remove everything!

2004-07-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote: >> I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core, >> and fiddling with package selections using dselect, >> and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages: > > DO NOT USE dselect!

Re: help! dselect wants to remove everything!

2004-07-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:27, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote: > > I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core, > > and fiddling with package selections using dselect, > > and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages: > > DO NOT US

Re: help! dselect wants to remove everything!

2004-07-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote: > I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core, > and fiddling with package selections using dselect, > and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages: DO NOT USE dselect! apt-get update && apt-get -u upgrade (or

help! dselect wants to remove everything!

2004-07-12 Thread William F. Dudley Jr.
I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core, and fiddling with package selections using dselect, and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages: 0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 396 downgraded, 605 to remove and 0 not upgraded I'm using "unstable", and mostly, it's been stable.