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 happens when I choose "install". ,----[ This is what I see: ] | The following packages will be REMOVED: | netscape-base-4 libmd5-perl libcurses-perl debhelper nosql | libcompress-zlib-perl libtime-hires-perl libdelimmatch-perl perl | debmake libhtml-parser-perl sysutils libterm-readkey-perl | procmail-lib dupload navigator-smotif-45 netscape-base-45 | perl-5.004-doc xkeycaps dftp cvs-buildpackage perl-suid | libio-stringy-perl devscripts pkg-order signify liblockdev0-perl | dpkg-dev quake2 netscape-java-45 perlmenu navigator-base-45 dpkg-ftp | libnet-perl libmime-base64-perl dpkg-repack xaw-wrappers debsums | alias alien | 14 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 40 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | 1 packages not fully installed or removed. | Need to get 4745kB/11.3MB of archives. After unpacking 30.3MB will be freed. `---- Is there any way I could tell dselect that thank you, I want my system left just the way it is right now. I want to clear that list of packages lined up for removal. Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)