Re: [Sheflug] Debian dselect...

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

Thanks for the reply.

On Sun, 13 May 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:

> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:39:04AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > uninstall particular packages, I run dselect... 
> 
> Ah, yes. There's the mistake, right there :)
> 
> > And it presents me with a
> > choice of A FEW packages that are already selected for
> > installation...
> 
> I would imagine it doesn't - are you sure? dselect has the most rubbish

Well... I can't interpret it otherwise... Here's a sample line:
  n* Std admin    ncurses-term <none>      5.0-6      Additional terminal type
and in status line (when this line is hilighted:
ncurses-term not installed ;  install (was: new package).  Standard

However, doing
dpkg -l ncurses-term
produces:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems
(Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un  ncurses-term   <none>         (no description available)

So, what does it really mean?

Well, I think, I was right - dselect really selected automatically a
number of packages it thought I needed:-) So, I think, I'll let it install
them all and then start cleaning up:-) (hm, why didn't I do it the other
way round?...)

Thanks
Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk


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