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