Re: Resetting dselect

2000-08-18 Thread Craig McPherson
Highlight the very top entry in dselect, - All packages -, and press the = key. Pressing an action key when highlighting any category heading applies that action to ALL packages in that category, and - All packages - is a heading that contains every package. Hope that helps. On Fri, Aug 18,

RE: Resetting dselect

2000-08-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation -Original Message- From: David Vrabel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 4:41 PM To: Andrew McRobert Subject: Re: Resetting dselect On 18 Aug 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote

Re: resetting dselect

2000-03-24 Thread Nick Barron
what if i don't want to conf. them? - Original Message - From: David Z. Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:55 PM Subject: Re: resetting dselect Beavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beavis ok, well lets just say this: what

Re: resetting dselect

2000-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Barron) wrote: - Original Message - From: David Z. Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:55 PM Subject: Re: resetting dselect Beavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beavis ok, well lets just say this: what

Re: resetting dselect

2000-03-23 Thread Beavis
ok, well lets just say this: what if the packages are in the upacked (not set up); install (was: install) state. and i want the dselect to just ignore the face that they are not set up the reason why is that i can't install anything without gettting ride of this packages first. is there an

Re: resetting dselect

2000-03-23 Thread David Z. Maze
Beavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beavis ok, well lets just say this: what if the packages are in the Beavis upacked (not set up); install (was: install) state. Then you should probably configure them, either using 'dpkg --configure --pending' from the command line or using dselect's Configure

Re: resetting dselect

2000-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beavis) wrote: hello, i installed a few .deb manually meaning dpkg -i filename but dselect thinks that are are still unconfigured, which is not true They aren't just in obsolete/local? If they are, you can safely ignore them. If dselect thinks they're unconfigured then