Dexter Graphic wrote: > Let's say I ran "apt-get upgrade" to fetch any new security > updates for Woody, but when I saw how much stuff it was going > to download I told it "no" to cancel. However, every time I > run dselect now it still wants to get and install all of those > packages. How do I get apt-get to stop trying to install this > stuff? I looked at all the man pages and can't find anything > like "apt-get --clear-the-list-of-packages-to-install". -Dex.
I think you want to set the packages' "hold" flags. You do that in dselect with the H command. I don't use dselect. I found it extremely nonintuitive, and it was often impossible to get a package in such a way that all dependencies were satisfied. I use apt-get and dpkg instead. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
