Tech Geek <[email protected]> writes: >> (Save yourself a few keystrokes: just type 'grep purge packages.txt'.) > Definitely! Thanks for pointng that out. > >> sed -i 's/purge$/install/' packages.txt >> dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt > OK, so it is just done manually. I was wondering if there are any > special tools (like dpkg, dselect, etc) which one can use to set those > statuses.
Sure you can use dselect or, probably better, aptitude to specify packages to install. Just setting them to "install" as suggested doesn't let you see if there are dependencies that lead to purging the packages or if the packages were replaced by newer versions. -- html messages are obsolete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
