Re: dselect removed (almost) everything
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. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/bookreviews.html The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
Re: dselect removed (almost) everything
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 __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: dselect removed (almost) everything
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 10:34:52AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: 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. Yes, I've found that if you install using dpkg -i, you need to run the dselect update afterwards, so it can update it's list of installed packages. I noticed that when I installed my kernel images built with kernel-package... they didn't show up in dselect until after update was run. 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.) Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680
dselect removed (almost) everything
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. -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
