[Gllug] 2.4.15

[Jim Bailey]

Hi Stig,

I know how you feel  used to have problems with dselect and package 
management systems in general but it did teach me tar ;-).
On Saturday, November 24, 2001, at 03:06 PM, Stig Brautaset wrote:

>
> Thanks for this info Mr. Damerell, I've hung around several of the
> Debian mailinglists for a while now, and this was sort of news to me
> anyway. Do you know if aptitude suffers from the same problem? (I don't
> like dselect. IMHO it has a very confusing interface, I have never even
> managed to leave it without using C-c...) Or maybe I should really start
> using dselect (and RTFM?).

The secret to using dselect is to follow the system logically through its 
various levels 1-6 though 1 can safely be skipped.  At the end of 2 
[S]elect when you have made your choices press shift q and you will be 
ready for install, also while in select press "?" and a lot of help is 
available.
>
> Anyway, this only really of importance when installing new packages,
> right? I imagine Apt will do just fine when just doing dist-upgrade or
> something.
>
> Regards,
> Stig
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