Stuart Ballard replied off-list:
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:14:42PM +, Stuart Ballard wrote
John Pearson wrote:
I've attached a three-line awk filter that should do what's required,
in the event it comes up again.
Run it as
# dpkg -l | reset-selections.awk | dpkg
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:11:31PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote:
Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after
manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything
You are one of many,
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 03:33:59PM -0800, Andy Thomas wrote:
I've got another question about dselect. It seems like when I go in there
and choose some more packages to install, then tell it to install, it
gives some kind of error about /cdrom being mounted. I have to exit
dselect, umount
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 01:56:31AM +, Mark Brown wrote:
I've got another question about dselect. It seems like when I go in there
and choose some more packages to install, then tell it to install, it
gives some kind of error about /cdrom being mounted. I have to exit
dselect, umount
On Fri, 24 Dec, 1999 à 05:39:32PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote:
In this discussion it may be helpful to summarize my view on dselect-dpkg:
- the underlying mechanism seems to be very good (I do agree with everybody)
- the user interface could be better
- as a coherent tutorial the
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:11:31PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote:
You are one of many, myself included, who asked similar questions
about resetting dselect or dpkg after they created chaos.
Does the revert command 'R' do what you want?
We only want to start all over again with the selection
I've got another question about dselect. It seems like when I go in there
and choose some more packages to install, then tell it to install, it
gives some kind of error about /cdrom being mounted. I have to exit
dselect, umount /cdrom, then re-enter dselect, select install and off she
goes...
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:11:31PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote:
Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after
manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything
The debian group
Egbert Bouwman wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote:
Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after
manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything
Remember that the dependencies will kick in (though jdk
On 12/23/99, Egbert Bouwman addressed Bad points for debian (was: resetting
dpkg):
In the dselect man page (dd 29th november 1995) in slink you can read:
The dselect package selection interface is confusing or even
alarming to the new user.
The debian group tries to remedy
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