Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-06 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Thanks Colin Thats exactly the thing I was looking for. Pat On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:43:18AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > You could move the cursor down to the line saying "Available packages > (not currently installed)" and press '_'. That will select to purge all > packages which aren't ye

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:09:37PM -0600, Mark Lanett wrote: > Or don't use dselect. Just quit from it after installing, and use apt-get > afterwards. apt-get isn't a complete replacement, as it was never intended to be a user's one and only package management frontend. For one, it doesn't underst

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:58:30PM +, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > Is their a way to say to dselect "just forget about all the packages you > currently have marked for install" from the command line so next time > you run it it only has a list of allready installed packages and ones > you can insta

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-05 Thread Mark Lanett
Or don't use dselect. Just quit from it after installing, and use apt-get afterwards. ~mark

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-05 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Thanks Colin Is their a way to say to dselect "just forget about all the packages you currently have marked for install" from the command line so next time you run it it only has a list of allready installed packages and ones you can install. Its just that their are thousands of packages in there

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:47:03PM +, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > I did a minimal install on a server here that is just going to be an FTP > and DNS server in a test lab. I did the initial install to reboot and > then quite the install so far so good. > > Unfortunately when I go into dselect to i

Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-05 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi I did a minimal install on a server here that is just going to be an FTP and DNS server in a test lab. I did the initial install to reboot and then quite the install so far so good. Unfortunately when I go into dselect to install proftp etc and the choose install dselect also wants to install