On Friday 24,August,2012 12:41 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 24 aug 12, 00:31:23, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I read the man dpkg, >> >> and didn't think too much, just tried the >> >> dpkg --clear-selections >> >> and then the dpkg --get-selections shows >> >> root@Debian:/home/lina# dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | wc -l >> 2991 >> root@Debian:/home/lina# dpkg --get-selections | grep " install" | wc -l >> 0 >> >> I feel I am in trouble again, don't know how to recover/restore. >> kinda of very silly though, but is it very dangerous? > > Let's see what apt/itude thinks of this. Please post the output of > > apt-get install -s >
# apt-get install -s Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > and > > aptitude install -s # aptitude install -s The following packages will be REMOVED: accountsservice acl acpi acpi-fakekey acpi-support acpi-support-base acpid acroread acroread-debian-files acroread-dictionary-en acroread-escript acroread-l10n-en adduser alien alsa-base alsa-utils anacron ant ant-optional anthy-common apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common apbs apg apmd apt <snip the long long list packages, as you can guess, more than 2000 packages will be removed> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, *2811 to remove* and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 9,209 MB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgconf-2-4 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4) but it is not going to be installed. <snip, with long listh of dependence problems.> > > (-s stands for 'simulate' for both apt-get and aptitude) > I am in trouble, thanks for the helps. > Kind regards, > Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50365e7...@gmail.com
