-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote:
> Any way to get dselect to only show me the packages I have selected for > installation, but not yet installed? > > I've scrole through and think I may have selected a couple of wrong > packages and their dependent files at a conflict to my existing system. > I'd hate to scroll through the entire list to find out which have astrixes > and which do not. If displaying only the files I want installed is not an > option how do i clear the entire list of selected packages without > scrolling through one by one to unselect them? i don't know of a way to get dselect to show only the non-installed packages selected for install. But, this command will show them to you: grep "Status: install ok not-installed" -B1 /var/lib/dpkg/status To clear the entire list of selected packages, go to the line "--- Available packages (not currently installed) ---" and press '_'. This will deselect all not-currently-installed packages. You can do something similar to the "--- Up to date installed packages ---" line to make sure none will be removed. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8BWA77M/9WKZLW5AQGr8wQAnzGPxCs5pzhtmouk30yn4BCu82lr+/GV hMCwa1RDNtOMgGcinCZu2PtR9RN4DR8QaPtDKbDyVNcXIidxm0PWin2cuYfke7xk YpP3qyy15Mt8s3foIETYZCGcNMRABbv0ypcpqZJcpYb+jauCvTDiQIYEzrkI2uXH BvFef3wCfkg= =btXJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----