Re: reseting dpkg ?

For some reason the ':' command does not work for me (I installed dselect from unstable ) but typing 'G' had the desired effect, thank you David On Tuesday 08 October 2002 05:43 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:35:11PM -0700, David Dayan-Rosenm

Re: reseting dpkg ?

> can anyone tell how to reset the state of the packages to reset what the > system to what it currently is ? That does not seem clear, I meant How to reset the packages' state in dpkg so that it reflects the current state of the system. sorry about that David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

reseting dpkg ?

Hello all, can anyone tell how to reset the state of the packages to reset what the system to what it currently is ? After selecting way to many packages (through deps) in dselect and Ctr-C-ing, I don;t know how to make dselect (in fact dpkg I think) forget about the choices I made and reflect

getting woody

Hi all, I am trying to get woody but could not find out how to do that. Are there some ISOs available ? Thanks David

dpkg/dselect config files

Hi, Iscrewed up and erased the /var/lib/dpkg/status* files for dpkg/dselect, is there anyway to restore them ? David