For some reason the ':' command does not work for me (I installed dselect from unstable ) but typing 'G' had the desired effect,
thank you David On Tuesday 08 October 2002 05:43 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:35:11PM -0700, David Dayan-Rosenman wrote: > > Hello all, > > can anyone tell how to reset the state of the packages to reset what > > the system to what it currently is ? > > After selecting way to many packages (through deps) in dselect and > > Ctr-C-ing, I don;t know how to make dselect (in fact dpkg I think) > > You were right the first time: dselect. > > > forget about the choices I made and reflect the state of my system. > > Instead of that, it insists on installing 500+ packages and > > desinstalling 200 of them. > > The patch in bug #151540 provides a single-keystroke mechanism for this. > Without that, the best way I know, short of the risky procedure of > hand-editing /var/lib/dpkg/status, is to use the ':' (unhold) command > with the cursor on each of the "Updated packages (newer version is > available)", "Up to date installed packages", and "Available packages > (not currently installed)" headers. You may have to go round a few times > to calm dselect down. > > > I tried to remove all my apt-sources and select all the available pkgs > > (which in my mind would have been the installed packeages) but it only > > made matters worse. > > Available packages are definitely not the same as installed packages, so > don't do that. > > Cheers,
