Hi again I have tried the "G" option and its still got some packages which it stats will be removed etc.. is there any other way i can fix dselect ?
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Medi > Esmail wrote: > > HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a > mistake i did using > > dselect, I was choosing the new kernel package and > when it came up > > with dependencies i found some packages i had were > removed etc any way > > i made some changes and went to the main menu of > dselect and chose > > install at which point it came up with X number of > packages were going > > to be removed etc and installed etc... at that > point i wanted to > > backout and I chose No, so im back at my main > menu. > > What I want to do now is revert all my selections > and not go ahead > > with the new install and want the selection to go > back to normal as it > > was before I selected anything. > > There's no one-shot way to do this in dselect at the > moment. I filed a > bug report a while back (#151540) with a patch to > implement a > single-keystroke command to do this, but to my > annoyance it's been > largely ignored. > > In the meantime, your best bet is to move the cursor > onto each of the > "Updated packages (newer version is available)", "Up > to date installed > packages", and "Available packages (not currently > installed)" headers in > turn and use the 'G' (that's shift-g, "unhold") > command on each. You may > have to repeat this a few times. > > > I tried going into the /var/lib/dpkg directory and > copied over > > status-old over the status.. > > I'm not sure what this will have done. > > > Please any help would be highly appreciated (im a > relativly new user > > and dont want to reinstall unless there is no > other option). > > You should definitely not need to reinstall. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== Medi Esmail Mobile: 0404085710 ICQ : 1679212 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
