The Debian Package Management Tools Previous Next Table of Contents 7. This program is a menu-driven interface to the Debian package management system. What the user sees next depends on the action he selected. Both the Access menu item and the Select menu item lead to additional menus.
Some users find it easier to navigate dselect when it is colorized.
The order in which the actions are presented in the first dselect menu represents the order in which a user would normally choose dselect to install packages. Select specific packages for installation on his system. This removes most of the files associated with the package, but preserves the files listed as configuration files and other configuration information. This removes every file that is part of the package. This is probably what you wanted.