RE: Resetting dselect

2000-08-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
+61 8 9360 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, A

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,

Resetting dselect

2000-08-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all Does anyone know a quick way to unselect (hold I guess) all the packages in dselect (as opposed to going through the whole list and hitting "=")??? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDO

Re: resetting dselect

2000-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Barron) wrote: >- Original Message - >From: David Z. Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: >Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:55 PM >Subject: Re: resetting dselect > >> Beavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Beavis> ok, well le

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: 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 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 "Configur

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 easi

Re: resetting dselect

2000-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beavis) wrote: >hello, i installed a few .deb manually meaning > >dpkg -i > >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 they p

resetting dselect

2000-03-22 Thread Beavis
hello, i installed a few .deb manually meaning   dpkg -i   but dselect thinks that are are still unconfigured, which is not true   how do u reset the deselect so that it doesn't pick up the packages as existing in the system   the packages are kdebase, kbelibs2g   tkankx beavis..

Resetting dselect

1997-04-09 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello All: I had added bo to my pkgs list and set everything to hold (I thought). Two questions. 1. Why does dselect seem to override holds on some pkgs? I hilighted the All pkgs line and hit hold (=) so I could selectively make changes yet there were a few p