On 10 Mar 1999q, Matt Garman wrote: > > I was using dselect, and I hit the remove unwanted software option. > And it went through and started removing almost EVERYTHING I had > installed -- stuff I thought should definately _not_ be flagged to be > removed (fetchmail, emacs, lilo, lprng, tetex...). > > I hit CTRL-C so that it wouldn't take out too much. I did _not_ get > dpkg-ftp (dpkg-ftp was still installed), so I went through and > selected the files dselect removed, and when I went to install them, > it said there were zero files to be gotten! > > Now I'm in the long, slow, painful process of downloading each package > manually via ftp, and installing them by hand with dpkg. > > Why is my system in this state? What did I do? These packages that > dselect started to remove, I have NEVER flagged to remove them. > > help. > This once happened to me. I'm not sure why; I assumed it was something stupid I'd done, but since then I've NEVER allowed it to remove anything; I've always removed unwanted packages manually, with dpkg.
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