Re: Unpacking ad infinitum
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> Robert Ramiega wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 02:25:33PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > Previously Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > Besides, I'm afraid that won't help. If I try to install anything using
> > > > dselect instead of plain apt, it wants to upgrade to the `new' Perl and remove
> > > > lots of stuff.
> > >
> > > Try this: go to the select screen in dselect, put those two packages on hold and
> > You can put packages on hold using '=' .
>
> or if -like me- you don't like dselect :-), you could use
>
> dpkg --set-selections (that enters an input mode):
> doc-linux-text hold
> doc-linux-html hold
> <Ctrl-D>
>
> this is what dselect does, iirc.
That solves it. But if I use --set-selections to put the in `install' state,
the problem reappears.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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