Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

2000-01-01 Thread Brian May
> "Arcady" == Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arcady> Yes, I did that. However, when I select "Install", I still Arcady> get the same thing: What does dpkg -l and/or apt-get install do? where is one that is installed, and selected to be installed, but apt-get is tryi

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:51:50PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote > John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > See my reply to this list under the subject > > > Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg) > > > > I provided a perl scrpt that probably does what you want. > > Please be careful

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread Arcady Genkin
John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See my reply to this list under the subject > > Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg) > > I provided a perl scrpt that probably does what you want. > Please be careful to get the right message: I also posted > an awk script that was broken en

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread Hartmut Figge
Arcady Genkin wrote: > Any ideas, anyone? I'm pretty much at the end of my rope. I tried > looking in various /var directories, hoping to find some cache file > for dselect or apt, but alas... how about the status* files in /var/lib/dpkg ? -- hafi

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-31 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 01:57:48AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote > I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 > packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! > > I figure that this is saved in some file, for any time I try to > install a package with dselect now, it wants

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-30 Thread Arcady Genkin
John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 > > packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! > Not so horrible, haven't we all done that? > > Have you tried to return to the "Select" menu and toggle all those > files to ins

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-30 Thread John Carline
Arcady Genkin wrote: > I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 > packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! > Not so horrible, haven't we all done that? Have you tried to return to the "Select" menu and toggle all those files to install (+) rather than remove

dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-30 Thread Arcady Genkin
I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! I figure that this is saved in some file, for any time I try to install a package with dselect now, it wants to remove the 40 packages along with installing the new ones. This happ