medi esmail

HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a
mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the new
kernel package and when it came up with dependencies i
found some packages i had were removed etc any way i
made some changes and went to the main menu of dselect
and chose install at which point it came up with X
number of packages were going to be removed etc and
installed etc... at that point i wanted to backout and
I chose No, so im back at my main menu.
What I want to do now is revert all my selections and
not go ahead with the new install and want the
selection to go back to normal as it was before I
selected anything.
I tried going into the /var/lib/dpkg directory and
copied over status-old over the status.. that did
remove the selection in dselect however if i choose
install again it still has all the packages there to
remove and add and upgrade as before even thou they
dont showup in the dselect list ..
Is there a way i can get dselect to reread my system
and rebuild the list of whats installed and forget any
packages which might be selected to install??
Please any help would be highly appreciated (im a
relativly new user and dont want to reinstall unless
there is no other option).
thanks
Medi

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clive menzies

man dselect refers to:

Establishing the requested selections
However, if there are any unresolveded depends, dselect will
again prompt the user with a dependency resolution screen. To
alter a set of selections that creates unresolved depends or
conflicts and forcing dselect to accept it, press the 'Q' key.
This sets the selections as specified by the user, unconditionally.
Generally, don't do this unless you've read the fine print.

The opposite effect, to back out any selections change requests and
go back to the previous list of selections, is attained by pressing
the 'X' or escape keys. By repeatedly pressing these keys, any
possibly detrimental changes to the requested package selections can
be backed out completely to the last established settings.

HTH

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medi esmail

Hi Clive,
I tried that initially but the problem i face is i
have quit out of dselect frist time and now it
remembers all the selections regardless if i press Q
or X or Esc... when I go to Install packages I would
like to hope and see there are no packages to install
remove or upgrade but instead i see hte same message
as before when i made the error and its got packages
to remove upgrade etc .. before i did the message if
i had gone in dselect (and nothing was selected to
install or upgrade or remove ) i would see nothing to
install upgrade or remove when i chose the Install
option. All I wana do is get dselect to drop all the
selections it has remembered and rescan whats loaded
in the system and just remember that so I can re-do my
selection again.
Thanks
Medi


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colin watson

There's no one-shot way to do this in dselect at the moment. I filed a
bug report a while back (#151540) with a patch to implement a
single-keystroke command to do this, but to my annoyance it's been
largely ignored.

In the meantime, your best bet is to move the cursor onto each of the
"Updated packages (newer version is available)", "Up to date installed
packages", and "Available packages (not currently installed)" headers in
turn and use the 'G' (that's shift-g, "unhold") command on each. You may
have to repeat this a few times.

I'm not sure what this will have done.

You should definitely not need to reinstall.

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medi esmail

Hi again I have tried the "G" option and its still got
some packages which it stats will be removed etc.. is
there any other way i can fix dselect ?

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