Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-06 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:54:15AM -0700, Robert Fu wrote: > Thanks you all for your help! > > One of my friends helped me with a workaround, which > is to use apt-get to install the packages I want. I'll > wait for Colin's patch for dselect, and clean up the > mess later. It seems I should mostly

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-06 Thread Robert Fu
Thanks you all for your help! One of my friends helped me with a workaround, which is to use apt-get to install the packages I want. I'll wait for Colin's patch for dselect, and clean up the mess later. It seems I should mostly use apt-get from now on. Thanks a lot, Robert Fu --- Ben Kal <[EMAIL

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-06 Thread Ben Kal
On 4 Jun 2003 Robert Fu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a newbie to Debian Linux. Somehow I made a mistake, and now whenever I > run dselect, it'll try to uninstall about 200 KDE packages. Thus I cannot > install or remove any package without risk of messing up the whole system. I ran into the s

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-05 Thread R.Stepanyan
Hi, >I'm a newbie to Debian Linux. Somehow I made a >mistake, and now whenever I run dselect, it'll try to >uninstall about 200 KDE packages. Thus I cannot >install or remove any package without risk of messing >up the whole system. As far as I understand - you "unselected" packages, but NOT un

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:55:39AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:15:16PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > If you're going to recommend a replacement for dselect, aptitude is > > probably a better choice (although personally I still use dselect). > > apt-get doesn't offer any

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:54:50AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:28:50AM -0700, Robert Fu wrote: > > I saw somebody submitted Bug#35639: dpkg: No undo for > > operations in dselect > > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/1999/debian-dpkg-199904/msg9.html). > > It seem

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:56:32AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:14:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Try the patch I wrote and submitted as bug #151540. Of course you'll > > have to rebuild dselect to do that ... maybe I should build a patched > > version, sign it, and

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:14:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Try the patch I wrote and submitted as bug #151540. Of course you'll > have to rebuild dselect to do that ... maybe I should build a patched > version, sign it, and put it somewhere. Bett

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:28:50AM -0700, Robert Fu wrote: > I saw somebody submitted Bug#35639: dpkg: No undo for > operations in dselect > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/1999/debian-dpkg-199904/msg9.html). > It seems the bug was closed with

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:15:16PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > If you're going to recommend a replacement for dselect, aptitude is > probably a better choice (although personally I still use dselect). > apt-get doesn't offer anywhere near the same deg

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:39:56PM -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > When I was new to Debian I experienced the same issue. I expect my > solution was the same as most other Debian users. Forget dselect and > just use apt-get. If you're going to recommend a replacement for dselect, aptitude is pr

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:28:50AM -0700, Robert Fu wrote: > I'm a newbie to Debian Linux. Somehow I made a mistake, and now > whenever I run dselect, it'll try to uninstall about 200 KDE packages. > Thus I cannot install or remove any package without risk of messing up > the whole system. It seems

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-05 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
When I was new to Debian I experienced the same issue. I expect my solution was the same as most other Debian users. Forget dselect and just use apt-get. - Ryan On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:28:50AM -0700, Robert Fu wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a newbie to Debian Linux. Somehow I made a > mistake, and n

newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-05 Thread Robert Fu
Hi, I'm a newbie to Debian Linux. Somehow I made a mistake, and now whenever I run dselect, it'll try to uninstall about 200 KDE packages. Thus I cannot install or remove any package without risk of messing up the whole system. It seems to be a lot of work to manually re-select the 200 KDE package