Matt Garman hat gesagt: // 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.
Yeah, this has happened to me once as well :( If you had installed software by hand with dpkg -i , dselect perhaps could not find the packets in its Packages-lists and files them under "Local/Obsolete". To us of course there is a *BIG* difference between local and obsolete packages but somehow dselect is stupid about this. I will *NEVER* hit Remove again. I would recommend to install apt immediatly. It can repair at least some of the errors you now have in your setup. Plus it makes installing software by hand A LOT easier. (You just type "apt-get install somepackage" and it will download and install somepackage plus all the needed packages in one step.) -- __ __ Frank Barknecht ____ ______ ____ __ trip\ \ / /wire ______ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / ____/ / / / // ____// /\ \\ ___\\____ \ /_/ /_____/ /_/ /_//_____// / \ \\_____\\_____\ /_/ \_\