On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:54:15AM -0700, Robert Fu wrote: > Thanks you all for your help! > > One of my friends helped me with a workaround, which > is to use apt-get to install the packages I want. I'll > wait for Colin's patch for dselect, and clean up the > mess later. It seems I should mostly use apt-get from > now on.
Sorry I'm coming into this late. I would run dselect, then cursor to the head line for the installed package group, hit "+" to select that whole tree, and hit shift-Q to ignore any extra changes it prescribes from that. Then, I would cursor to the head of the uninstalled packages, hit "_" and again shift-Q. Those two steps should revert everything to wanting to be in the system's currently installed state. If there's a section at the very top with updated packages, you'll probably want to "+" that group as well, and if there's a newly available section, you may want to "-" that group and hand-pick anything you really want to add. If you leave dselect and go back in, you should be fine, assuming you're not looking at a legitimate large update from a KDE version bump or similar. For better management in the future, once you get the system the way you want it, I'd install "debfoster." debfoster which does a wonderful job of helping you keep your intended packages straight. If you get a chain of things you don't really want installed from suggestions, you can find and prune those. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
