I was using dselect, and I hit the remove unwanted software option.
And it went through and started removing almost EVERYTHING I had
installed -- stuff I thought should definately _not_ be flagged to be
removed (fetchmail, emacs, lilo, lprng, tetex...).
I hit CTRL-C so that it wouldn't take out too much. I did _not_ get
dpkg-ftp (dpkg-ftp was still installed), so I went through and
selected the files dselect removed, and when I went to install them,
it said there were zero files to be gotten!
Now I'm in the long, slow, painful process of downloading each package
manually via ftp, and installing them by hand with dpkg.
Why is my system in this state? What did I do? These packages that
dselect started to remove, I have NEVER flagged to remove them.
help.
--
Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou,
Lord, them delta women think the world of me."
-- Dickey Betts, "Ramblin' Man"
