ok, well lets just say this: what if the packages are in the upacked (not set up); install (was: install) state. and i want the dselect to just ignore the face that they are not set up>
the reason why is that i can't install anything without gettting ride of this packages first. is there an easier way around this? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beavis) wrote: > >hello, i installed a few .deb manually meaning > > > >dpkg -i <filename> > > > >but dselect thinks that are are still unconfigured, which is not true!!!! > > They aren't just in obsolete/local? If they are, you can safely ignore > them. If dselect thinks they're unconfigured then they probably are > (dselect gets its information from the dpkg database, and installing via > dselect is really not much different from 'dpkg -i'); does 'dpkg > --configure -a' help? > > >how do u reset the deselect so that it doesn't pick up the packages as > >existing in the system > > Er, if a package has been installed with dpkg than you can't tell > dselect it doesn't exist without doing serious violence to your > packaging system. I don't recommend that at all. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
