[Gllug] Debian Matching Machines

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 20:03 +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Wed 06 Apr, Peter Childs wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >     Why so, I have been told be many that the best way to install debian 
> > is to skip the dselect stage and use apt manually.
> > 
>    That may be so for an expert, but new users to Woody would usually prefer
> to allow tasksel to load a sensible set of packages for general use, and
> dselect to adjust the selection for personal preferences.

As a new user of Debian, I never managed to work out how to drive
dselect.  I just tried it again now and I still can't fathom it.  Its UI
is arcane in the extreme.  Far, far easier to use apt-get and friends
than solve dselect.

John

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