John W. Foster, 14.12.2013:
> I'm managing a couple of remote VPS servers with no GUI access except
> putty. I have been using dselect to assist with this process & up to
> yesterday it worked well as it has for years. I did a apt-get
> distupgrade and all went as expected and the system is running fine.
> However after I did the upgrade from old stable to wheezy, I decided
> that I needed to get an upgraded openjdk-7-jre installed for the game
> systems I'm running. When I did that the dselect decided I needed a lot
> of extra stuff to go along and I hit 'ctrl x' to abandon those changes.
> I reloaded the selections available and went into get ONLY the jre that
> I needed using apt-get install & the entire load of X related stuff
> popped up. Now I have tried to clear the caches of dselect and apt but
> they all seem stuck. Running apt-get clean & autoclean do not clear the
> dselect picked dependencies.
>
> Any ideas on how to get the dependencies & suggested selections cleared
> out.
Hello, fellow dselect old-timer. :) You should have hit X, not Ctrl-X,
Anyway, here's what 'man dselect' says:
If you mistakenly establish some settings and wish to revert all the
selections to what is currently installed on the system, press the 'C'
key. This is somewhat similar to using the unhold command on all pack‐
ages, but provides a more obvious panic button in cases where the user
pressed enter by accident.
(The previous paragraph was about using X to back out changes. The
screen in which you should have done that is the context of the "pressed
enter by accident".)
I never tried this. Let us know how it works.
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