Re: A simple problem with dselect ...
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 10:44:17AM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I was just wondering how I would go about removing a single package from my Debian machine. I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked it for). I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is. Some how those other packages must have gotten marked for removal. It happened to me once -- dselect decided to remove half the system, very annoying. I try to avoid using dselect anyway. You can remove a package using dpkg --remove package If you mark a few things for removal in dselect, go to the command line and run dpkg --no-act --remove --pending to see what would be removed. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A simple problem with dselect ...
Richard, You can do a 'dpkg --purge package name Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard B. Talley wrote: Nebu John Mathai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes this day 25 Feb 98: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked it for). I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is. It's not your stupidity but the computer's, or rather its lack of a sense of context for your request. The remove command removes all selected programs. The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs currently installed that have been deselected by the user. Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and choose *install*. This makes sense but only if you think like a computer. Regards, Richard B. Talley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. -Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996 quoted at 'Best Viewed With Any Browser' http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A simple problem with dselect ...
Richard B. Talley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes this day 25 Feb 98: The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs currently installed that have been deselected by the user. Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and choose *install*. This makes sense but only if you think like a computer. Sorry folks. I got this all WRONG. The install command only skips deselected packages. I don't know what happened to the original posters dselect (it removed everything) but install does NOT remove pkgs marked for removal. You must use the remove command. Perhaps his dselect is corrupt in some fashion? Perhaps he mis-understands how to select/deselect in dselect? Richard B. Talley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. -Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996 quoted at 'Best Viewed With Any Browser' http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A simple problem with dselect ...
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked it for). I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is. Is it possible that you accidently pressed - or _ when one of the top few lines was highlighted: All Packages, or Up To Date Installed Packages etc. This should have a pretty dramatic effect! Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A simple problem with dselect ...
Richard B. Talley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nebu John Mathai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes this day 25 Feb 98: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked it for). I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is. It's not your stupidity but the computer's, or rather its lack of a sense of context for your request. The remove command removes all selected programs. The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs currently installed that have been deselected by the user. Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and choose *install*. This makes sense but only if you think like a computer. This is completely wrong. Dselect can only change the desired status of a package to: desired status keystroke in dselect's select point -- - install + remove - purge [1] _ (underscore) hold [2] = [1] remove also the config files [2] usefull when you want to assure that dselect won't alter the status automaticly (like this is done if you do update in dselect and a package is a required package for example). When you exit the select stage, you can do: 1. install - dselect calls dpkg, which will install all files which have the desired status install 2. configure - dselect calls dpkg, which will configure all packages of the status unconfigured (due to a dependency problem in a prior run of install for example) 3. remove - dselect calls dpkg, which will remove/purge all packages which have the desired status of remove/purge So if dpkg starts to remove all packages you have installed, they have been marked with remove or purge. As someone said before, you most likely pressed - or _ on one of the headers like up to date packages. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A simple problem with dselect ...
On 25 Feb, David Wright wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked it for). I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is. Is it possible that you accidently pressed - or _ when one of the top few lines was highlighted: All Packages, or Up To Date Installed Packages etc. This should have a pretty dramatic effect! Hopefully in the new 'deity' project(the dselect replacment) something like this will have a confirmation on it, like ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO REMOVE *ALL* PACKAGES!!!. Currenlty dselect silently obeys and marks all packages under the heading, yikes! Can any deity members give feedback on this? -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A simple problem with dselect ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25 Feb, David Wright wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked it for). I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is. Is it possible that you accidently pressed - or _ when one of the top few lines was highlighted: All Packages, or Up To Date Installed Packages etc. This should have a pretty dramatic effect! Hopefully in the new 'deity' project(the dselect replacment) something like this will have a confirmation on it, like ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO REMOVE *ALL* PACKAGES!!!. Currenlty dselect silently obeys and marks all packages under the heading, yikes! This is not yet (to my knowledge) implemented, but the UI design calls for a confirmation screen that will list all changes about to be done (a list of upgrades, a list of downgrades, a list of packages to remove, etc) to be confirmed by the user before anything is done. Later, Behan (Deity UI designer) -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
