On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:25:52AM -0800, Tim Uckun wrote:
> Something went horribly wrong I think I might have hit the wrong key on
> deselect but whenever I quit dselect it wants to remove about 270 packages
> and hold three of them. Is there a way to rebuild the package database?
I don't think rebuilding is necessary. The way I use dselect is
to set everything to hold. One way to quickly do this is to run
these commands as root:
$ dpkg --get-selections > s
$ awk '{print $1, "hold"}' < s > s2
$ dpkg --set-selections s2
Next, I run dselect and pick the individual packages I want to
install or remove. The X key is very handy if you change
something and the results are not what you want.
> I don't know if it's related or not but I am also having a few other
> problems as well. Would it be better to upgrade to woody?
Upgrading to woody would probably be a good idea but I don't
think it would solve your problem. You seem to be having trouble
running dselect (as many people do since the interface is
confusing).
Neil
