[Gllug] Debian Matching Machines

[Peter Childs]

Russell Howe wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:59:25PM +0100, Peter Childs wrote:
>  
>
>>   I tend to use apt-get to install things rather than dselect, I can't 
>>stand the gui in dselect.
>>    
>>
>
>The only time you use dselect's GUI is to make the original package
>selections. I assume apt will set the selections too, so you could use
>that if you wished (though using apt in favour of dselect is wrong and
>evil :)
>  
>

    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.

>So, if you replace the first step with:
>
>[ do whatever you need to do with apt to get machine1 into the state you
>want it to be in ]
>
>The following steps will probably still work, and you won't see the
>dselect GUI.
>
>On a side note, dselect gets quite a bit nicer if you do this:
>
>echo expert >> /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg
>
>You lose a couple of help screens, and it makes it much slicker
>
>  
>
    I always love expert options esspecially in programs where nobody 
but experts should be using them, (Experts in there own computers anyway)

Peter Childs
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