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] .
