On 20-Jan-2002 Stan Brown wrote: > I had high hopes of getting my wife's new woody machine deployed this > weekend, but I seem to have sliped inot a descending death spiral on that > machine :-( > > Presently both printing and email are horibly broken on it. > > So I fired up dselect, amde the mistake of telling it to update, and tried > to seect cups, instead of lprng. > > Unfortuantely, I go inot a depedncy loop, that I could not figure out how > to resolve, as I tried to exit the selection step., so In desperation, I > control C's out of it. > > Seems to me, that I probably should go back to the set of working > selections I had before firing it up, and I reacll that it keeps a backup > file f the selections before it was fired up, but i can't remeber where > this lives. > > Help please! Where is this abckup file, and does my plan make sense? >
dpkg --get-selections > output <edit file by hand> dpkg --set-selections < output Not particularly pretty but it will work.
