On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 16:09 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > 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. > >
worked exactly as stated. Sorry I didn't even think of checking the man pages. I've been usin dselect for decades & just 'thought' I knew what I was doing LOL just go's to show...... Thanks John -- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/4.4.4"> </HEAD> <BODY> John Foster<BR> <BR> </BODY> </HTML> -- 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/1387283481.31576.1.ca...@beast.johnwfoster.com
